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Opiate users' knowledge about overdose prevention and naloxone in New York City: a focus group study

BACKGROUND: Drug-induced and drug-related deaths have been increasing for the past decade throughout the US. In NYC, drug overdose accounts for nearly 900 deaths per year, a figure that exceeds the number of deaths each year from homicide. Naloxone, a highly effective opiate antagonist, has for deca...

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Autores principales: Worthington, Nancy, Markham Piper, Tinka, Galea, Sandro, Rosenthal, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16822302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-3-19