Take-Home Naloxone Kits Preventing Overdose Deaths

Published November 27, 2013

Take-home naloxone kits preventing overdose deaths
It was 2 a.m. Shaver, a resident of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, was sleeping at her campsite when friends in a nearby tent woke her to tell her that one of their companions in the group of drug users had overdosed on methadone. Grabbing her …
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Lagos And The Crusade For Road Safety
According to the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), road accidents' statistics for the first half of the year (Jan-July) 2013, no fewer than 2,422 were killed and 11, 961 injured in 3,708 roads accidents in different parts of Nigeria. … Equally …
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Drug seizures across Manchester fall by 16% while police chief declares war on …
The figures show a 16% drop in numbers from 11,024 drug seizures in 2011/2012 to 9,214 in 2012/2013 and represent significant progress for the police. Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner, is keen to maintain this trend as law …
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