“I don’t want to die”: a qualitative study of coping strategies to prevent fentanyl-related overdose deaths among people who inject drugs and its implications for harm reduction policies

Abstract Background Fentanyl and fentanyl-related analogues are the main drivers of overdose death in the USA, particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID). Despite the fact that non-Hispanic whites exhibit higher population rates of synthetic opioid mortality, overdose deaths have increased am...

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Main Author: R. Abadie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-06-01
Series:Harm Reduction Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00805-x