Assessing prescription opioid overdose risk (POOR) via a quality improvement process led by Fife Pharmacy and scoping the feasibility of a specific overdose prevention intervention (distribution of and training in administration of intrasnasal take home naloxone) delivered by Community Pharmacists in NHS Fife.
PI: Dr Tessa Parkes
Funded by: NHS Fife
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Dr Rebecca Foster
Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences Colin Bell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Contact details
- Email rebecca.foster@stir.ac.uk
- Telephone+44 (0)1786 467687
ORCID 
0000-0002-8321-1801
About me
I am based in the Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research, part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. I am the Research Fellow for an NIHR funded study - ‘Supporting Harm Reduction through Peer Support’ (SHARPS) and for an NHS Fife funded study on prescription opioid overdose risk.
Prior to joining the Centre, I worked as a social researcher in the Scottish Government in the crime research team, where I was responsible for leading on and assisting with research projects covering a range of policy areas. I completed my PhD in Criminology at the University in Glasgow (part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research) - my PhD explored the experiences of imprisonment for families of prisoners.
I hold an LLB (Hons) (First Class) and an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice, both from the University of Edinburgh.