Naloxone laws facilitate the establishment of overdose education and naloxone distribution programs in the United States

The opioid overdose crisis, which has contributed to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths in the United States, continues to worsen (Rudd et al., 2016a). Over 2.5 million Americans are estimated to have an opioid use disorder that puts them at higher risk of opioid overdose (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2015), and in 2016, drug overdose claimed the lives of more than 64,000 Americans – more than were lost in any year during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic (Dowell et al., 2017; NIH/NIDA, 2017).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - May 15, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Barrot H. Lambdin, Corey S. Davis, Eliza Wheeler, Stephen Tueller, Alex H. Kral Tags: Full length article Source Type: research