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Meeting: '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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Drug checking as a harm reduction tool for recreational drug users: opportunities and challenges

A number of European countries have implemented drug checking with the aim of providing targeted preventive messages to recreational drug users. This approach, which is more individualised than mass media campaigns, provides...

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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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Annual expert meeting on Drug-related deaths (DRD) and Drug-related infectious diseases (DRID) – Preliminary summary and highlights of the meeting

Two EMCDDA expert meetings, dedicated to the agency’s drug-related deaths and mortality among drug users indicator (DRD) and the drug-related infectious diseases indicator (DRID), were held in Lisbon from 15–17 October. This...