Increasing proactive co-dispensing of take-home naloxone with prescription opioids at Ontario community pharmacies.

Abstract

opioids. an for possible intervention by means of take-home naloxone (THN) distrib-uted from pharmacies that are dispensing opioids. THN is in pharmacies and key findings demonstrated that THN was associated with a reduction in overdose mortality and was cost-effective in the population of people who use heroin. study found that only 40.7% of patients on prescription opioid agonist therapy and 1.6% of patients on prescription opioids THN. dispensing