Public healthHarm reductionScotland has one of the highest rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs) per capita in Europe, the majority of which involve opioids. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid-related overdoses. In efforts to tackle escalating DRDs in many countries, naloxone is ...
Even the prevention of overdose through the larger distribution of Naloxone vials is not actively encouraged by the same authorities who correctly suggest to insulin treated diabetic to bring some sugar lumps. Aids provoked the coming out of all contradictions, discriminations, fears, quarantine ...
Peer support refers to a process whereby individuals with lived experience of a particular phenomenon provide support to others by explicitly drawing on their personal experience. It has been adopted in a variety of service contexts including homelessness, substance use, mental and physical health. Th...
Jo Kimber and colleagues have announced a public health crisis in response to the record number of drug-related overdoses in Scotland, England, and Wales. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl emerged in Estonia in 2003, and, within a year, replaced heroin as the most common drug in the illicit ...