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Pride and Prejudice
As Overdose Awareness Day approached, the millionth kit of injectable naloxone was distributed. DDN looks back at the story of this lifesaving intervention.
Naloxone was...
Simple Solutions
Naloxone is safe and easy to use. So let’s get lots more people trained up and carrying it, says Deb Hussey.
Part of my role...
Be well aware
A powerful new national naloxone and overdose awareness campaign is using the faces of people with lived experience to get its message across.
‘For me...
The long road
Despite recent advances and lots of passionate campaigning, there’s still a long way to go before everyone who needs naloxone has easy access to...
Naloxone outreach – Reaching out
Now that naloxone is officially ‘out there’, CGL are among those searching for the people most in need of it. DDN reports on their...
Naloxone distribution
Fast forward on naloxone distribution
Progress on naloxone distribution is still slow and inconsistent throughout the UK. DDN asked naloxone champion Philippe Bonnet for some...
What price life?
The failure to roll out naloxone distribution in England prompted a multidisciplinary group to meet in London to campaign for change. DDN reports
Last year...
Beyond the gate
Prisons have a unique opportunity to introduce a life-saving naloxone strategy, so is the message getting through? DDN reports.
Naloxone saves lives, and for people...
A crucial conversation
Change Grow Live’s National Naloxone Conversation event was a vital opportunity to keep up the momentum for widening access.
Pharmacy staff save two lives after timely naloxone training
Medication that can save the lives of people who are overdosing on opioids has recently been used by staff at Wicker Pharmacy following training...
Doing it together
Despite the best efforts of the sector, we are all aware that deaths from drug poisoning have reached record levels in England and Wales,...
The naloxone consultation: landmark opportunity to expand the provision of naloxone
Katherine Watkinson, Acting Head of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy at Turning Point, discusses how a new government consultation could make naloxone more accessible.
Drug-related deaths...
Naloxone advocacy
Let's get it out there
The day saw repeated calls for life-saving, and cost-effective, naloxone to be made more widely available.
‘The case for take-home naloxone...
Legislation to allow naloxone to be more widely available
Ready for action
Naloxone is to be made more readily available next month. Public Health England’s Steve Taylor looks at how local services and commissioners...
High risk strategy
Failure to provide naloxone at the point of release for most prisoners is putting lives at risk, says John Jolly.
Read this article in DDN
Those...
Keeping it together
Handy naloxone pouches containing everything needed to make administration risk-free are a potential game-changer, says Alistair Bryant.
It would be cool if I can just...
Height of awareness: peer-to-peer overdose prevention
Peer-to-peer naloxone initiatives are proving an effective way to tackle overdose risk. Lee Collingham describes how SCUF are grasping the opportunity in Nottingham.
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Make it stick
Making sure naloxone is in the hands of everyone who needs it, whenever they need it, requires far more than simply handing it out...
The Naloxone Action Group
Keep nagging on naloxone, says the naloxone action Group
DDN listened to a lively lunchtime meeting of The Naloxone Action Group (NAG) at the RCGP...
Debunking myths: naloxone, the life-saving antidote to opioid overdose
The recent naloxone and overdose awareness campaign launched in the UK has stimulated an important conversation amongst many: what is naloxone? Though patented back...
Broadening the reach
We need to prioritise naloxone supply in high-risk settings
Our naloxone strategy for 2022
Change Grow Live outlines its naloxone strategy for 2022, aiming to make the life-saving drug as available to as many people as possible.
Since 2015,...
From our foreign correspondent
In her first international column Chris Ford looks at Ireland’s lack of naloxone provision
Noticing a number from abroad, I answered my phone. Before I...
More work needed to increase availability of naloxone, says ACMD
More needs to be done to increase the availability and use of naloxone, according to a report from ACMD.
Community pharmacies should be able...
The power of naloxone
As soon as Harbour Housing introduced naloxone a life was saved. A decade on they are looking back on one of their best decisions
Five things we did to help more people carry naloxone
Five things we did to help more people carry naloxone. Putting naloxone at the forefront of everything we do has saved lives
Scotland expands naloxone provision to community pharmacies
Naloxone will now be available in community pharmacies across Scotland, the Scottish Government has announced.
The £300,000 Emergency Access Naloxone Scheme will see all...
Constellations Online Festival of Harm Reduction
Over nine days in November 2021 we celebrated the harm reduction movement across the themes of science, justice and pleasure. Constellations Online Festival of...
Life-saving knowledge
Launching our DDN good practice exchange, Natasha Bray of the Wallich Community House Team shares how she delivered a successful naloxone training initiative.
The Wallich...
Naloxone overdose reversal medication
Naloxone is a medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Known as an ‘opioid antagonist’, it counteracts the depression of the central...
Reach out
Chris Rintoul reports positive results from a Northern Ireland naloxone programme
The Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) watered the seeds of take-home naloxone and it allowed...
Winning attitude
Being recognised through a national award made Catherine Larkin and Danny Hames realise the value of Inclusion’s eager adoption of a naloxone strategy.
Last November...
New app helps to locate free naloxone
An app that uses Google Maps to highlight places such as pharmacies and needle exchanges that offer free naloxone has been launched by Turning...
Naloxone provision ‘chronically inadequate’, says Release
Levels of naloxone provision by local authorities are ‘chronically inadequate’ and ‘certainly not sufficient to prevent opioid deaths to any meaningful extent’, according to...
Make naloxone routinely available to police, paramedics and public, says Turning Point
Turning Point is calling on the government to make naloxone routinely available to the police, paramedics and the general public, as only treatment and...
Local news
Anti-overdose scheme sees success
More than 500 people have been trained to administer naloxone by Addaction’s Recovery Partnership, preventing heroin overdoses in Coventry and Warwickshire.
‘Naloxone...
Letters
The DDN letters page, where you can have your say.
To be included in the next issue, please send letters and comments to claire@cjwellings.com.
Committed to naloxone
Regarding Neil...
Police Scotland rolls-out naloxone programme country-wide
Police officers across the whole of Scotland are to be equipped with and trained in the use of naloxone, Police Scotland has confirmed.
The...
DDN – Naloxone Toolkit
Let's get naloxone out there!
DDN wants to create a naloxone toolkit to help people get naloxone distributed and used in their local area.
The proposed draft contents...
Every step
We have a duty of care – from the recovery position to the recovery journey, says Dr Steve Brinksman.
If you have read this column...
Choose life – Recovery Month and Overdose Awareness
The stakes have never been higher. This year’s Recovery Month and Overdose Awareness Day activities brought service users and recovery communities together with one...
Opening doors
Peers in Medway are taking partnerships to a new level with impressive results. DDN sees them in action.
A man in a grey tracksuit wanders...
Peer-to-peer naloxone programmes have transformational potential, says SDF
Peer-to-peer naloxone programmes can help to reduce stigma and boost confidence, says a new report from the Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF), and if rolled...
Straight to the point – NNEF conference
The National Needle Exchange Forum focused on some vital harm reduction issues, as DDN reports. Photography by Nigel Brunsdon.
Read the full article in May...
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Peer distribution of naloxone is the best way to get the opioid overdose reversal drug where it’s needed.
Met should routinely carry naloxone, says London Assembly Health Committee
London’s mayor should work with the Metropolitan Police to ensure that its officers routinely carry naloxone spray, according to a new harm reduction report...
Take-home naloxone in prisons
Research consultant, Arun Sondhi, from the Centre for Public Innovation (CPI), talks to DDN about the findings of his latest research into take-home naloxone...
Local authorities failing to provide sufficient naloxone
The amounts of naloxone being provided by local councils and prisons are ‘extremely limited’, warns a new report from Release. While all but three...
Be prepared! Train with naloxone
Train your staff to empower service users with life-saving naloxone, says David Swain
In the 1838 report to the House of Commons on causes of...
Harm reduction at the NNEF meeting
On the front line
Matt Johnstone brings harm reduction news from the annual NNEF meeting
The National Needle Exchange Forum (NNEF) held its annual meeting in...
Government consults on widening access to naloxone
The Department of Health and Social Care has launched a consultation on proposals to make naloxone ‘more widely available in the community’.
The eight-week...