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    Assembling the Social and Political Dimensions of Take-Home Naloxone

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    Authors
    Farrugia, A.
    Fraser, Suzanne
    Dwyer, Robyn
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Farrugia, A. and Fraser, S. and Dwyer, R. 2017. Assembling the Social and Political Dimensions of Take-Home Naloxone. Contemporary Drug Problems. 44 (3): pp. 163-175.
    Source Title
    Contemporary Drug Problems
    DOI
    10.1177/0091450917723350
    ISSN
    0091-4509
    School
    National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59184
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This commentary explores the complex position that take-home naloxone holds as a harm reduction strategy in contemporary public health contexts. Providing the opioid antagonist naloxone to people who consume opioids and others likely to witness opioid overdose is currently positioned as an exemplary lifesaving public health intervention. Few socially oriented studies of take-home naloxone raise questions beyond whether or not take-home naloxone “works”—lines of inquiry that we think should be raised. Until take-home naloxone efforts address harms as effects of social context and policy regimes, the focus on individual behavior change will constrain the equitable distribution of responsibility for tackling overdose and the capacity to achieve more ambitious harm reduction goals such as decriminalization and the associated destigmatization of those who consume opioids. We conclude by arguing for the analytic incorporation of issues of power and normalization that animate responses to opioid overdose, including take-home naloxone.

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