Research saving lives - evaluating Canberra’s drug overdose treatment program

On this episode of Fuzzy, Ian interviews Sione Crawford (Manager of Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy) and David McDonald (Director of Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd) about how they evaluated Canberra's Naloxone program. Naloxone is an injectable drug designed to reverse the effects of people who have overdosed on heroin (and other opioids). This government funded program was quite controversial in its infancy but was it actually a success? and how did David and Sione collect data required to publish government reports and scientific papers? We discuss all these issues and more in this very interesting episode of Fuzzy.