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...medication that is incredibly effective at reversing overdoses," says Dr. Wilson Compton, director of the Division of Epidemiological Services and Prevention Research for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "It makes good logical sense. I wish we had a rigorous evaluation of the benefits and potential risks...
...hand out naloxone kits and offer training, including instruction on rescue breathing, to patients who are starting methadone treatment for pain - methadone is stronger and lasts longer than other painkillers, which puts users at a higher risk of overdose - and those beginning treatment for addiction with the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine, who are by definition at high risk for drug relapse and overdose...
...date, at least 17 states, along with city health departments in New York City, Baltimore, Boston and San Francisco, now have in place programs similar to that of Chicago Recovery Alliance. But not all officials agree that they are a viable part of any solution to the country's drug problem. Critics argue that arming drug addicts with an overdose remedy only encourages more drug use; they also say naloxone should be administered only by medical professionals to protect against side effects and potentially dangerous misuse. The deputy director of former President Bush's Office of National Drug Control Policy...
Advocates also note that the drug, which has been used for decades in emergency rooms and ambulances, is safe. Naloxone reverses a high by blocking the brain's opioid receptors, where drugs like heroin and narcotic painkillers bind. According to Daliah Heller, an assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, who is involved with the city's naloxone program, serious side effects from the drug (aside from triggering withdrawal symptoms in addicts) are extremely rare. But they're not unheard of: in rare instances, high doses of naloxone have caused seizures, but, says Heller, "It's much...
That was the precisely the situation that Bigg walked into about two years ago, when he found a clammy, unconscious 25-year-old man sprawled out on a La-Z-Boy in a chic Chicago townhouse. He had overdosed on heroin and GHB (a party drug that is also used as a date-rape drug), according to his two panicked friends. The friends were high too, and afraid to call 911, so they called Bigg instead, whom they knew from Chicago Recovery Alliance's needle-exchange program...