European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2015) Perspectives on drugs: Preventing overdose deaths in Europe. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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It is estimated that over 70 000 lives were lost to drug overdoses in Europe in the first decade of the 21st Century. Reducing drug-related deaths, therefore, remains a major challenge for public health policy. This analysis describes some of the factors that increase the risk of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and a number of interventions developed to prevent these events.
1. Analysis
2. Video
3. Facts and figures
4. Peer naloxone
[Please note this guideline has been updated https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/27399/ ]
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Harm reduction > Substance use harm reduction
P Demography, epidemiology, and history > Population dynamics > Substance related mortality / death
VA Geographic area > Europe
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