PA - Improve Access to Treatment that Prevent Overdose Deaths
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PA - Improve Access to Treatment that Prevent Overdose Deaths
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Potential Action
- =====Train first responders and law enforcement officers (staff frequently in contact with opioid users) to provide emergency life-saving care (immediate use of naxolone).=====
- Increase the number of distribution programs legally allowed to distribute naloxone by working with states that have such established programs.
- 52 programs in 17 states[1]
- Work to relabel naloxone as an over-the-counter drug
- Naloxone has been available over-the-counter in Italy since the 1980s without any reported negative consequences, because it has no potential for abuse and therefore is not a controlled substance.[2]
