Time for Pharmacy Co-dispensing of Naloxone with Prescribed Opioids?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
² Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center Division of General Internal Medicine, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatry Research, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Mark.Schwartz@nyulangone.org.

Editorial

Jeffrey R Wunderlich et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;37(11):2621-2623.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07643-w.

¹ Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
² Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center Division of General Internal Medicine, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatry Research, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Mark.Schwartz@nyulangone.org.

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Comment on

Naloxone Co-Dispensing with Opioids: a Cluster Randomized Pragmatic Trial.
Binswanger IA, Rinehart D, Mueller SR, Narwaney KJ, Stowell M, Wagner N, Xu S, Hanratty R, Blum J, McVaney K, Glanz JM. Binswanger IA, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Aug;37(11):2624-2633. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-07356-6. Epub 2022 Feb 7. J Gen Intern Med. 2022. PMID: 35132556 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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