OD: naloxone and the politics of overdose

Introduction : making overdose matter : protagonists and antagonists in the social lives of naloxone

Poison murders and natural accidents : antidotes and antagonists

The "chemical superego" : police science, social antagonism, and artificial will

Deaths from "narcotism" in the mid-twentieth century United States

Bringing out the dead : naloxone's nine lives begin

Unnatural accidents : the science and politics of 'reanimatology'

Adopting harm reduction : early democratizations of naloxone

Any positive change : naloxone as a tool of harm reduction in the United States

Public health, harm reduction, and social justice : working naloxone into public health USA

Resuscitating society : overdose in post-thatcherite Britain

"Growing arms and legs" : the Scottish national naloxone program

Evidence from pillar to post : researching the varieties of overdose experience

Overdose and the cultural politics of redemption

Conclusion : "and what?" : we have hardly begun to be human.