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Measuring a Crisis: Questioning the Use of Naloxone Administrations as a Marker for Opioid Overdoses in a Large U.S. EMS System

Joseph M. GroverCorrespondence[email protected]
, MD,
Taibah Alabdrabalnabi
, MD,
Mehul D. Patel
, PhD,
Michael W. Bachman
, MHS, EMT-P,
Timothy F. Platts-Mills
, MD, MSc,
Jose G. Cabanas
, MD, MPH &
Jefferson G. Williams
, MD, MPH show all
Pages 281-289 | Received 29 Sep 2017, Accepted 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 03 Jan 2018

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