Implementing take-home naloxone in an urban community pharmacy.

Objective: Morbidity and mortality associated with opioid use have increased across the nation, growing into what can only be described as an epidemic.

Setting: In Washington State between 2002 and 2004, the statewide death rate attributed to any opioid was 6.6 per 100,000 people, but between 2011 and 2013 it increased to 8.