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Advocates believe it's important to get naloxone to the people who are most likely to be around overdoses, including people who use drugs and their relatives.
Source: https://www.denver7.com/news/national/fda-approves-over-the-counter-sales-of-narcan
Allegheny-Kiski Health Foundation staffer Paula Kuzmirek demonstrates how to use naloxone, an opioid reversal medication.
A Vermont health department allows people in the state to get naloxone through pharmacists without a prescription.
A WOMAN kicked out at cops after naloxone was given to her when she was found under the influence of drugs in Ayr town centre.
Source: https://www.ayradvertiser.com/news/23336965.ayr-woman-kicked-cop-given-anti-overdose-drug/?ref=rss
Between 2024 and 2025, Washington State anticipates receiving a total of 54,120 naloxone kits, each containing two nasal spray devices.
But these sites are also places where people can access wraparound supports such as wound care, counselling and addiction treatment, free naloxone kits and pipe and needle kits, Lawson explained.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-path-525-overdoses-1.7053727?cmp=rss
CDC resources on naloxone: cdc.
Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/we-cannot-help-people-if-they-are-not-alive/
Eastern Idaho Public Health will be providing education on opioids and naloxone, as well as safe storage and disposal of prescription medications.
Source: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/10/national-prescription-drug-take-back-day-set-for-oct-28/
Ensuring naloxone is widely available, especially as an approved OTC product, makes a critical tool available to help protect public health," FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D., said in a statement.
For Davies, that includes ensuring schools have naloxone on site.
Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/01/09/sacramento-snapshot-orange-county-legislators-get-to-work/
Hofmann again emphasized the importance of makings sure naloxone is accessible.
Source: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/12/14/23998996/opioid-crisis-in-utah
“I’d love to see naloxone in everybody’s first aid kit,” Anderson, whose research focuses on drugs, alcohol and crime, said.
If an employer is required to provide a naloxone kit in the workplace, they must determine how to ensure there is a worker present who has been trained and works in the vicinity of the naloxone kit.
If an employer is required to provide a naloxone kit in the workplace, they must determine how to ensure there is a worker present who has been trained and works in the vicinity of the naloxone kit.
“If they’re not getting Narcan or naloxone through me, they’re not getting it,” Rogers said.
Source: https://ktar.com/story/5428145/experts-urge-better-opioid-rescue-drug-access-to-save-lives/
If you or someone you know needs fentanyl test strips or naloxone, call or text OCHD’s confidential Narcan and Test Strip Request Line at 315-418-5365.
Source: https://www.urbancny.com/public-health-alert-spike-in-overdoses-in-onondaga-county/
“If you’re not sure if the person has experienced an opioid poisoning, it’s safe to give the naloxone to them as part of our checking to see if they’re responsive and calling 911 right away,” Proulx said.
Source: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/how-manitobans-can-prepare-to-deal-with-emergency-situations-1.6378496
In 2022, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which collaborates with SFDPH in its distribution of the medication, distributed more than 40,000 doses of naloxone alone and reported 5,127 reversals.
In Montgomery County, Maryland, after a recent rash of student overdoses, administrators are holding community training sessions throughout the year where free doses of naloxone are distributed to parents and children.
Source: https://www.1310kfka.com/abc-news/health/05/schools-stock-naloxone-as-student-drug-overdoses-surge/
It was on May 2, 2022, when he left HMP Northumberland, with naloxone - a medication used to reverse or reduce the effects of opioids, and went to Stockton Probation Office for his induction appointment.