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At a Tipping Point

At a Tipping Point Guest Editorial Journal of Addictions Nursing & Volume 28 & Number 4, 173Y176 & Copyright B 2017 International Nurses Society on Addictions Nurses Can Push Narcan to the Mainstream and Save Lives Dorothy James Moore, DNP, FNP, CCRN NARCAN AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC Opioid overdose deaths cut across all age, ethnic, and Naloxone, known most commonly by the trade name Narcan, income groups. There is good evidence that many of these has saved countless lives from heroin and other opioid over- lives might have been saved if bystanders had training and doses since its invention in 1961. It is safe and easy to use with ready access to naloxone. Naloxone rescue kits have been very little training and has very few side effects. However, its endorsed by numerous medical organizations, including availability and public acceptance have been hindered by the American Heart Association, the American Medical As- some of the same social forces that created today’s opioid sociation, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, epidemicVstigma, competing profit motives, the blurred and the World Health Organization (Lim, Bratberg, Davis, boundaries of legal and illegal opioids, and the failure to ac- Green, & Walley, 2016). cept that addiction is a chronic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Addictions Nursing Wolters Kluwer Health

At a Tipping Point

Moore, Dorothy James
Journal of Addictions Nursing , Volume 28 (4) – Jan 1, 2017
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Guest Editorial Journal of Addictions Nursing & Volume 28 & Number 4, 173Y176 & Copyright B 2017 International Nurses Society on Addictions Nurses Can Push Narcan to the Mainstream and Save Lives Dorothy James Moore, DNP, FNP, CCRN NARCAN AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC Opioid overdose deaths cut across all age, ethnic, and Naloxone, known most commonly by the trade name Narcan, income groups. There is good evidence that many of these has saved countless lives from heroin and other opioid over- lives might have been saved if bystanders had training and doses since its invention in 1961. It is safe and easy to use with ready access to naloxone. Naloxone rescue kits have been very little training and has very few side effects. However, its endorsed by numerous medical organizations, including availability and public acceptance have been hindered by the American Heart Association, the American Medical As- some of the same social forces that created today’s opioid sociation, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, epidemicVstigma, competing profit motives, the blurred and the World Health Organization (Lim, Bratberg, Davis, boundaries of legal and illegal opioids, and the failure to ac- Green, & Walley, 2016). cept that addiction is a chronic

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