Providing health education on accidental drug overdose

Branagan, Olive RGN

Olive Branagan, RGN, Cert addiction studies, is staff nurse, Addiction Service, Dublin; Loretto Grogan, MSc, RGN, DipIS, is research coordinator, Health Research Board, Ireland.

This article has been double-blind peer-reviewed.

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Nursing Times 102(6):p 32-33, February 7, 2006.

There is an association between intravenous drug use and increased risk of death due to overdose. This article reports on the evaluation of a health promotion programme to educate drug users on preventing an overdose and how to deal with an overdose if it occurs.