• Preventive medicine · Nov 2015

    Distribution of naloxone for overdose prevention to chronic pain patients.

    • Marion A Coe and Sharon L Walsh.
    • Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 845 Angliana Avenue, Lexington, KY 40508, United States; Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 845 Angliana Avenue, Lexington, KY 40508, United States.
    • Prev Med. 2015 Nov 1; 80: 41-3.

    AbstractIn this commentary, we reflect on the growing opioid overdose epidemic and propose that chronic pain patients prescribed opioids are contributing to growing mortality rates. We advocate for expanding naloxone access and overdose prevention training, which has historically been directed when available to injection drug users, to chronic pain patients who may be at high risk for accidental opioid overdose. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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