Paul Royall
Executive News Editor at BBC
Journalist. Executive News Editor, BBC News channel. Based London.
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Oct 13, 2023 |
kcl.ac.uk | Caroline Copeland |Paul Royall
Delivering opioid overdose reversal kits by drone could help stem the drug-related death crisis faced by the UK. In a study published today in Addiction, researchers from King's used real-world data of fatal opioid overdoses where a bystander was present to show that drones could have reached 78% of cases within seven minutes - the benchmark time for the arrival of emergency services for Category 1 calls in England- a huge increase on the 14% reached by ambulances.
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Oct 12, 2023 |
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Paul Royall |Patrick Courtney |Christine Goodair |Caroline Copeland
INTRODUCTION Opioids are used clinically for their analgesic effects [1]. Recreational opioid users seek their additional effects of euphoria and sedation [1]. Repeated opioid use can induce tolerance where larger doses are needed to produce the same ‘high’—doses sufficiently extreme to cause respiratory depression and death [1].
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