| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Naloxon
Naloxone is a health intervention that can’t be effectively provided without the knowledge and social connections of people who inject drugs
Programmes to provide naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of opiate overdose, are successful because they harness the social contexts of drug use and train drug users to be ‘indigenous public health workers’ capable of intervening in an overdose, according to a qualitative study published in the May issue of Social Science & Medicine. (aidsmap, 05.05.2017)