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Last updated October 17, 2005.
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"This pilot trial is the first in North America to prospectively evaluate a program of naloxone distribution to IDUs to prevent heroin overdose death. After an 8-hour training, our study participants’ knowledge of heroin overdose prevention and management increased, and they reported successful resuscitations during 20 heroin overdose events. All victims were reported to have been unresponsive, cyanotic, or not breathing, but all survived. These findings suggest that IDUs can be trained to respond to heroin overdose by using CPR and naloxone, as others have reported. Moreover, we found no evidence of increases in drug use or heroin overdose in study participants. These data corroborate the findings of several feasibility studies recommending the prescription and distribution of naloxone to drug users to prevent fatal heroin overdose."

Source: Seal, Karen H., Robert Thawley, Lauren Gee, Joshua Bamberger, Alex H. Kral, Dan Ciccarone, Moher Downing, and Brian R. Edlin, "Naloxone Distribution and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training for Injection Drug Users to Prevent Heroin Overdose Death: A Pilot Intervention Study," Journal of Urban Medicine (New York, NY: New York Academy of Medicine, 2005), Vol. 82, No. 2, p. 308.

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Addictive Properties of Drugs
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Alcohol
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Annual Causes of Death in the United States
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Civil and Human Rights
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Cocaine
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Crack
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Ecstasy and Raves
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Environment
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Families
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Forfeiture
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Gateway Theory
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Hemp
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Heroin
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Interdiction
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International Policies and Trends
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Mandatory Minimums
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Marijuana
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Medical Marijuana
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Military Participation in the Drug War
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Treatment
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