...Sara Rolando; Franca Beccaria; Susanna Ronconi Purpose Spanning almost 30 years, Italy’s experience with take-home-naloxone (THN) provides an interesting case study on the international scene because of its specific history, regulation and trends in overdose (OD) rates. Accordingly, this study...

... and is encouraged and thus, paradoxically enough, a social act (Demant and Järvinen, 2010 ; Steiner and Stewart, 2009). Our hypothesis, then, is that the rules for the correct ways of acting in different drinking situations are supported by general values in each culture. In Italy elements predominate...

...Grazia Zuffa Following the example of many northern European countries, harm reduction strategies were introduced in Italy at the beginning of the 90s in response to the spread of HIV/Aids. The peculiarities of Italian culture and tradition led to the adoption of a ‘Latin’ model, while in northern...