Prison-based prescriptions aid Scotland's National Naloxone Programme

Lancet. 2017 Mar 11;389(10073):1005-1006. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30656-6.

Authors

Sheila M Bird¹, Andrew McAuley², Alison Munro³, Sharon J Hutchinson², Avril Taylor³

Affiliations

¹ MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. Electronic address: sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk.
² Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, UK; Institute for Applied Health Research, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
³ School of Media, Culture and Society, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK.

PMID: 28290986
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30656-6

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / poisoning*
Humans
Naloxone / supply & distribution*
Narcotic Antagonists / supply & distribution*
Opioid-Related Disorders / mortality
Opioid-Related Disorders / rehabilitation
Prescription Drugs
Prisons*
Scotland / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Narcotic Antagonists
Prescription Drugs
Naloxone

Grants and funding

MC_U105260794/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom