Clinical staff who are not familiar with managing patients with palliative care needs may not be aware of the potential adverse effects if naloxone is used inappropriately. Here, we describe two cases ...

and users have expressed willingness to carry the antidote for emergency use (take-home naloxone). In November 2014, new WHO guidelines identified that naloxone should be made available to anyone at ...

Here, we report the case of a heroin addict who used his take home naloxone to manage an overdose and thereby saved a life. Through this account, we hope to raise clinicians’ awareness of this simple ...

Of 26 possible solutions identified, co-design work prioritised an information campaign, an app and map to navigate naloxone suppliers, and provision of a carry case to facilitate discreet carriage ...

In overdose cases, an intramuscular injection or nasal spray of naloxone can be given ... of its ease of use and because it doesn’t carry any risk of needle-stick injury. The nasal spray ...

BOULDER, Colo. — The Boulder Police Department has become the first in the state to begin carrying naloxone, a drug used by emergency responders to reverse the effects of opiate overdoses from ...

The University of New Brunswick has placed nasal spray naloxone kits around its campuses for emergency opioid overdose ...

With the government of Ontario having recently introduced new rules for safe consumption sites across the province, community groups are encouraging citizens to take the health and safety of their ...

POLICE officers across Scotland should carry naloxone, an emergency treatment for drug overdoses, a new report has recommended. The Edinburgh Napier University-led study backed the use of the ...

APD now requires all officers to carry naloxone in their police vehicles, Plummer said. “It blows my mind” that some police departments haven’t equipped themselves with the drug, Plummer said.