How Quentin Tarantino helped us change global policy and practice. Naloxone saves lives. It is an antidote to heroin and other opioid drugs. This emergency injection is used by A&E doctors and ambulance crews all over the world to reverse opioid overdose. But that isn’t where overdose deaths occur. More than 100,000 people die every year of opioid overdose in the community, at home or in public places - and the number keeps growing. We need technology transfer - we need to place naloxone where the problem might arise. We need to teach the public how to intervene. Our also needs pre-supply of the antidote. My talk will describe our work bringing training to communities and our research to develop better forms of naloxone such as the new naloxone nasal spray - and will explain how Quentin Tarantino helped us turn the world on to naloxone.
Professor Sir John Strang, Head of Department of National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London.
Chair: Emily Finch
