July 20, 2009

leading pharmacologist calls for life-saving drug to be more freely available

Speakers:
Prof Les Iversen, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford

Leading pharmacologist Prof Les Iversen believes that Michael Jackson could have been one of the several thousand people who die every year from an overdose of opiates. He also thinks that many of these lives could be saved by a simple and safe drug, naloxone, that can prevent death. Prof Iversen came to the SMC to explain the way the drug works and elaborate on his call for this drug to be made more freely available and to explain what the problems are in implementing this policy in Britain.