Naloxone

• What is Naloxone?

• Who should carry naloxone?

• How to access naloxone

• Information leaflets

• Naloxone and Overdose Awareness Training

What is naloxone?

Naloxone is a life-saving medication that temporarily reverses the effects of opiate drugs. Opiates are a class of drug that includes heroin, methadone and dihydrocodeine.

In a potentially fatal opiate overdose, naloxone can buy time until an ambulance arrives. Naloxone has no intoxicating effect or dependence potential. In a similar manner to Adrenaline, naloxone may be legally administered by anyone to anyone for the intended purpose of saving a life.

Find out how naloxone works by watching the short video clip from Scottish Drugs Forum:

Who should carry naloxone?

Anyone who might witness an opiate overdose.  If you, or someone you know takes drugs, or if there is a chance you could witness opiate overdose, carry naloxone.

Naloxone is free and available to anyone over the age of 16. Some basic training will be provided to ensure you have the information you need to respond to an opiate overdose. This can take as little as 10 minutes

How to access naloxone

A list of services in Renfrewshire who supply naloxone is available at the bottom of this page.

Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs provide a 'click and deliver' take home naloxone service - Take Home Naloxone Application - SFAD

Renfrewshire ADP offer free Naloxone and Overdose Awareness training courses, dates can be found at the bottom of this page.

Find the Scottish Drugs Forum eLearning module "Overdose Prevention, Intervention, and Naloxone"-  Overdose Prevention, Intervention and Naloxone e-learning - Scottish Drugs Forum (sdftraining.org.uk)

Be a lifesaver, carry naloxone/How to save a life

Information leaflets

Drug emergencies https://www.crew.scot/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Drug-Emergencies.pdf

Additional take home naloxone leaflet [326KB]

Prenoxad assembly and administration guide  [1MB]

For more information about naloxone, you can access the following sites:

Scottish Drugs Forum: www.sdf.org.uk

Take Home Naloxone: www.naloxone.org.uk

Prenoxad: www.prenoxadinjection.com/

#StopTheDeaths: https://www.stopthedeaths.com/home

For help with an alcohol or drug problem you can contact the following organisations:

• Renfrewshire Alcohol and Drugs Recovery Service: 0300 300 1199 (Option 2)
• RCA Trust: 0141 887 0880
• Narcotics Anonymous: call 0300 999 1212, or visit https://scotland.ukna.org/
• Cocaine Anonymous: 0141 959 6363, or visit https://www.cascotland.org.uk/
• Alcoholics Anonymous: 0800 9177 650, or visit https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/
• Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs: 08080 10 10 11, or visit https://www.sfad.org.uk/

Naloxone and Overdose Awareness Training

How do I get a naloxone kit?

In order to receive a kit, you must undertake some basic training to ensure you have the information you need to respond to an opiate overdose.

What will the training cover?

Following the training, participants will be able to:

• Describe what naloxone is, and how to use it.
• Identify the risk factors associated with overdose
• Recognise the signs of opiate overdose, and respond.

Who can attend the training?

Anyone who is likely to witness overdose can attend, including people who use drugs, friends or family members, and those who work with people who use drugs.

Please register, to book your place : https://forms.office.com/e/ELkqhtwczu

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