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Health & Medicine

Drug Addicts Can Learn How to Save Lives, Yale Researchers Find

Drug users can be taught to identify and quickly respond to overdoses of heroin or other opioids as effectively as medical experts, a Yale University study suggests.
May 1, 2008
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