Strang, John (contributor); McDonald, Rebecca (contributor); … - European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction - 2016
Preventing opioid overdose deaths with take-home naloxone examines the case for distributing naloxone, an emergency … medication, to people who inject opioids such as heroin and to others who might witness an opioid overdose. Through its capacity … at the pharmacology of naloxone and the opioids it counteracts, and the physiological mechanisms involved. The chapters …