Take-home emergency naloxone to prevent deaths from heroin overdose.
National Addiction Centre (Institute of Psychiatry and The Maudsley), King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK john.strang@kcl.ac.uk.
John
J
Strang
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK.
Sheila M
SM
Bird
Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
Paul
P
Dietze
Drug Prevention and Health Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria.
Gilberto
G
Gerra
Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA.
A Thomas
AT
McLellan
D062787:Drug Overdose / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D004630:Emergencies; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D009270:Naloxone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009292:Narcotic Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology
D009292:Narcotic Antagonists; D009270:Naloxone