Increasing naloxone awareness and use the role of health care practitioners

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 319, Issue 20, 2018, Pages 2073-2074

  Adams, Jerome M ^a  

^a U S PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST;

CAREGIVER; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG AWARENESS; DRUG COST; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY CARE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; NOTE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PHARMACIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 85047728884     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.4867     Document Type: Note

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