Working together: Expanding the availability of naloxone for peer administration to prevent opioid overdose deaths in the Australian Capital Territory and beyond

Issue. Since the mid-1990s, there have been calls to make naloxone, a prescription-only medicine in many countries, available to heroin and other opioid users and their peers and family members to prevent overdose deaths. Context. In Australia there were calls for a trial of peer naloxone in 2000, y...

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Main Authors: Lenton, Simon, Dietze, P., Olsen, A., Wiggins, N., McDonald, D., Fowler, C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42344