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Let’s Talk Overdose: The Hidden Pandemic and How to Stop It

The EMCDDA participates at the workshop 'Let’s Talk Overdose: The Hidden Pandemic and How to Stop It' organised by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia. It takes place...

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Preventing overdose deaths in Europe (Perspectives on drugs)

More than 9 000 lives were reported to be lost to drug overdoses in Europe (28 EU Member States, Turkey and Norway) in 2016, the latest reporting year, and this is an...

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Preventing opioid overdose deaths with take-home naloxone

This publication examines the case for distributing naloxone, an emergency medication, to people who inject opioids such as heroin and to others who might witness an opioid overdose. Through its capacity to...

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Meeting minutes: Take home naloxone to reduce fatalities: scaling up a participatory intervention across Europe, October 2014

These are the minutes from a meeting organised by the EMCDDA on 14 October 2014 in Lisbon, entitled 'Take home naloxone to reduce fatalities: scaling up a participatory intervention across Europe'. The...

Take home naloxone to reduce fatalities: scaling up a participatory intervention across Europe

Drug overdose continues to be the main cause of death among problem drug users and heroin or its metabolites are present in the majority of reported fatal overdoses, often in combination with...

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Mortality among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

People who inject drugs have an elevated risk of death, although mortality rates vary across different settings. Public health initiatives must include efforts to reduce HIV infection as well as other causes...

Preventing opioid overdoses in Europe

This report focuses on individual, situational and organisational risk factors for overdoses and how they can be modified to reduce fatal outcomes. Key risk and protective factors were categorised and their efficacy...

Overdose — a major cause of avoidable death among young people

Drug-related death is a complex phenomenon that includes both deaths from overdose and deaths indirectly related to drugs, for example from diseases spread by the sharing of injecting equipment, such as AIDS...