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

Lenton, Simon; Dietze, Paul; Olsen, Anna; Wiggins, Nicole; McDonald, David; Fowlie, Carrie

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

Date

2014

Authors

Lenton, Simon

Dietze, Paul

Olsen, Anna

Wiggins, Nicole

McDonald, David

Fowlie, Carrie

Publisher

Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

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