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dc.contributor.authorFarrugia, A.
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Suzanne
dc.contributor.authorDwyer, Robyn
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-10T12:39:07Z
dc.date.available2017-12-10T12:39:07Z
dc.date.created2017-12-10T12:20:11Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationFarrugia, 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.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59184
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0091450917723350
dc.description.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.

dc.publisherFederal Legal Publications, Inc
dc.titleAssembling the Social and Political Dimensions of Take-Home Naloxone
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume44
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage163
dcterms.source.endPage175
dcterms.source.issn0091-4509
dcterms.source.titleContemporary Drug Problems
curtin.departmentNational Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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