Opioid Overdose

Monday, 24 November 2008 13:45 - 15:30, Bayside 103

Chair Dr Deborah Zador National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London 
Effectiveness and safety of intranasal naloxone for the treatment of heroin overdose by paramedics
  • Paul Dietze, Burnet Institute
Comparing deaths associated with methadone and buprenorphine treatment
  • Ms Bethany Butler, The University of New South Wales
Opioid pharmacotherapy and mortality in New South Wales from 1985 to 2006: Rates, patterns, and risk both in and out of treatment
  • Dr Louisa Degenhardt, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
Recent international developments in naloxone distribution: Implications for Australia
  • Paul M Dietze, Burnet Institute
  • A/Prof Simon R Lenton, National Drug Research Institute
Impact of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) on ambulance attendances at opioid overdoses
  • Allison M Salmon, UNSW