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Take home naloxone to reduce fatalities: scaling up a participatory intervention across Europe

Drug overdose continues to be the main cause of death among problem drug users and heroin or its metabolites are present in the majority of reported fatal overdoses, often in combination with...
Lisbon, Portugal
EMCDDA expert meeting
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Meeting minutes: Take home naloxone to reduce fatalities: scaling up a participatory intervention across Europe, October 2014

These are the minutes from a meeting organised by the EMCDDA on 14 October 2014 in Lisbon, entitled ' Take home naloxone to reduce fatalities: scaling up a participatory intervention across Europe...
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HCV Expert meeting ‘Scaling up action on HepC for PWID’

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The EMCDDA is organising an expert meeting on Scaling up action on HepC for PWID, taking place in Lisbon in January 2020.
Lisbon, Portugal
EMCDDA expert meeting
Last updated : 05.12.2019
Rating
  • Unknown effectiveness

Needle and syringe programmes were analysed in a systematic review (ECDC/EMCDDA, 2018) and showed no significant effect in:

  • reducing injecting risk behaviours in prison.
Name of response option
  • Needle and syringe programmes (NSP)
Desired outcome(s)
  • reduce risk behaviours
Area(s)
  • Harm reduction
Specific substance or pattern of use
  • opioids
Target group(s) or setting(s)
  • PWID – people who inject drugs

References

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Public health guidance on prevention and control of blood-borne viruses in prison settings. Stockholm: ECDC and EMCDDA; 2018.
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An illustration of the range of models of drug checking available and their relative strengths

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Drug checking

25.10.2019

Drug-checking services enable individual drug users to have their drugs chemically analysed, providing information on the content of the samples as well as advice, and, in some cases, counselling or brief interventions. Service aims...
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Drug consumption facilities

16.01.2024

Drug consumption rooms, sometimes known as supervised injecting facilities, are fixed or mobile spaces in which people who inject drugs are provided with sterile injection equipment and can use illicit drugs under...
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Take-home naloxone

07.10.2019

Naloxone is used worldwide in medical emergencies to reverse respiratory depression caused by opioid overdose. It has no effect on non-opioid drug overdoses, no dependency potential and a high safety margin. Discovered and patented...
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Statistical Bulletin 2019 — health and social responses

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17th European AIDS Conference

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Basel is the host of the 17th European AIDS Conference the largest European HIV conference this year, where you can learn about the latest scientific updates, new challenges, best practices and much...
Basel, Switzerland
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