Measuring a Crisis: Questioning the Use of Naloxone Administrations as a Marker for Opioid Overdoses in a Large U.S. EMS System. Grover JM, Alabdrabalnabi T, Patel MD, Bachman MW, Platts-Mills TF, Cabanas JG, Williams JG. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2018…

Comparison of Two Naloxone Regimens in Addicted Methadone-Overdosed Patients, a Clinical Trial Study. Khosravi N, Zamani N, Hassanian-Moghaddam H, Ostadi A, Rahimi M, Kabir A. Curr Clin Pharmacol. 2017 Dec 11. doi: 10.2174/157488471366617121211254…

USA. Pharmacists Slow to Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug (...) In the three years since the California law took effect, pharmacists have been slow to dispense naloxone, which reverses the effects of an overdose. They cite several reasons, includi…

NIDA. Naloxone for Opioid Overdose: Life-Saving Science Naloxone can quickly restore normal breathing and save the life of a person who is overdosing on opioids. In 2015, over 33,000 people died from an overdose on opioid drugs, including prescript…

NIDA. Naloxone for Opioid Overdose: Life-Saving Science - Themenseite des us-amerikanischen National Institute on Drug Abuse https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/opioid-overdose-reversal-naloxone-narcan-evzio

Kanada. Take Home Naloxone Training Programme (online) In British Columbia, there is a program that is saving lives: Take Home Naloxone Naloxone (also called Narcan®) reverses an overdose from opioids. People who are likely to experience or wi…