Naloxone Access Laws and Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in Youths

JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Dec 1;178(12):1368-1370. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.3701.

Authors

Michael S Toce¹, Kenneth A Michelson², Scott E Hadland³, Michael C Monuteaux¹, Florence T Bourgeois⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
³ Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Mass General for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 39401021
PMCID: PMC11581725 (available on 2025-10-14)
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.3701

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study assesses fatal drug overdoses in youths associated with implementation of state-level naloxone access expansions.