Boston Public Health Commission Regulation: Authorizing an Opioid Overdose Prevention and Reversal Pilot Program
July 18, 2006 Boston Public Health Commission Regulation: Authorizing an Opioid Overdose Prevention and Reversal Pilot Program The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) seeks to establish a pilot program to train active opiate drug users in the techniques of overdose prevention through the utilization of nasal Naloxone, an opiate antagonist that quickly reverses the respiratory depression that accompanies a heroin or synthetic opiate related overdose and can lead to death. The pilot program will be based at BPHC's needle exchange program in Boston which has been in existence since 1994 . . .
