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NALOXONE EMPOWERS CARERS TO SAVE LIVES OF OVERDOSING HEROIN USERS Up to 18 lives were known (and more perhaps unrecorded) to have been saved after the National Treatment Agency in England piloted training for the carers of opiate users on how to administer the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. But how does catering for relapse in this way square with the optimism of the recovery movement? To view this entry click on the link below or paste it in to your web browser address box, being sure to enter the whole address: http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=NTA_21.txt ************************************** Effectiveness Bank alerts are provided by Drug and Alcohol Findings (http://findings.org.uk) to alert you to site updates and recent UK-relevant evaluation studies and reviews of drug/alcohol interventions. Findings is managed by DrugScope, Alcohol Concern and the National Addiction Centre. The Effectiveness Bank is supported by Alcohol Research UK. You have received this message via another mailing list. To receive these messages directly sign up at: http://findings.org.uk/index.php#signUp