NALOXONE-BASED OVERDOSE PREVENTION TRAINING SPREAD SLOWLY IN ENGLAND
After being initiated in London, training for addiction treatment staff in managing opiate overdose
using naloxone cascaded to other staff and to patients at a disappointingly slow pace; on average
each clinician trainee trained one drug user every 11 months. Is this a sign of the low priority
given to overdose prevention?
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