Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Overdose prevention for injection drug users: Lessons learned from naloxone training and distribution programs in New York City | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Open Access Overdose prevention for injection drug users Lessons learned from naloxone training and distribution programs in New York City Tinka Markham Piper1 Sasha Rudenstine1 Sharon Stancliff2 Susan Sherman3 Vijay Nandi1 Allan Clear2 and Sandro Galea 4 Address 1Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies New York Academy of Medicine New York NY 10029 USA 2Harm Reduction Coalition New York NY 10001 USA 3Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore MD 21205 USA and 4Department of Epidemiology University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor MI 48104 USA Email Tinka Markham Piper - kmarkham@ Sasha Rudenstine - srudenst@ Sharon Stancliff - stancliff@ Susan Sherman - ssherman@ Vijay Nandi - vnandi@ Allan Clear - clear@ Sandro Galea - sgalea@ Corresponding author Published 25 January 2007 Received 22 September 2006 Accepted 25 January 2007 Harm Reduction Journal 2007 4 3 doi 1477-7517-4-3 p This article is available from http content 4 1 3 2007 Piper et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background Fatal heroin overdose is a significant cause of mortality for injection drug users IDUs . Many of these deaths are preventable because opiate overdoses can be quickly and safely reversed through the injection of Naloxone brand name Narcan a prescription drug used to revive persons who have overdosed on heroin or other opioids. Currently in several cities in the United States drug users are being trained in naloxone administration and .
