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Working together: Expanding the availability of naloxone for peer administration to prevent opioid overdose deaths in the Australian Capital Territory and beyond.

Simon LentonPaul DietzeAnna OlsenNicole WigginsDavid McDonaldCarrie Fowlie
Published in: Drug and alcohol review (2014)
The development of Australia's first take-home naloxone program in the ACT has been an 'ice-breaker' for development of other Australian programs. Issues to be addressed to facilitate future scale-up of naloxone programs concern scheduling and cost, legal protections for lay administration, prescribing as a barrier to scale-up; intranasal administration, administration by service providers and collaboration between stakeholders.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • public health
  • primary care
  • chronic pain
  • electronic health record