Strategier vid överdoser : En kvalitativ studie om vad naloxonspray har för betydelse för patienter med substitutionsbehandling

Sammanfattning: Title: Drug overdose strategies. A qualitative study about the significance of the Naloxone Take Home Programme. Supervisor: Mats Hilte Assessor: Alexandru Panican The purpose of this study was to depict and analyze how patients in Swedish methadone maintenance clinics deal with overdose. The aim of the study was also to depict and analyze how the newly implemented Naloxone Take Home Programme in the Swedish province of Scania affect the patients. The study was conducted in three different methadone clinics and the empirical material contains eight interviews with nine patients at the clinics. The material was analysed through the theoretical standpoints of symbolic interactionism, stigma and social construction. The main findings were that the respondents had a positive attitude towards the naloxone take home programme but implicates that naloxone has little significance due to already existing drug overdose strategies.