Heroin overdose: the case for take-home naloxone
- 8 June 1996
- Vol. 312 (7044) , 1435-1436
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7044.1435
Abstract
Interviews with 320 heroin users in Sydney found that two thirds had had a drug overdose, a third within the past year, and that 80% had been present at the overdose of another user.7 In Australia the incidence of deaths from heroin overdose has increased over the past decade while deaths from other drug related causes have fallen. In the United Kingdom a sharp increase in the numbers of deaths among opiate users has recently been …Keywords
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