Take-home naloxone
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Take-home naloxone kits preventing overdose deaths.
injected naloxone into a fellow drug user to save his life, she was crouched in a tent in the mountains outside Nelson, British Columbia. Friends in a nearby tent had awoken her with news that one of their companions had overdosed on methadone. Grabbing her flashlight, a bottle of naloxone and a clean syringe, Shaver raced to help. The man had been smoking cocaine and drinking alcohol and metha...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.170600