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[…] to methadone and buprenorphine has just been launched and is available immediately for maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Suboxone, manufactured by Schering- Plough, is buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone hydrochloride. The combination of naloxone alongside buprenorphine (whose formulations include Subutex) is designed to limit the potential for misuse, as well as lowering its street value.The […]

[…] are commonly known as ‘legal highs’, and the increasing concern relating to prescription drugs’ misuse and related fatalities.’  Meanwhile, Scottish GPs have ‘minimal’ awareness of the country’s naloxone programme, according to research by the University of Aberdeen. ‘GPs tend to classify naloxone provision as a specialist service and therefore assume it is not part […]

[…] necessary to defer drub detoxes, the buidance states, as well as scale back testinb for hep C. Provision of harm reduction measures such as NSP and take-home naloxone, however, should be increased where possible, while arranbements for prescribinb and dispenmsinb will chanbe to take account of social distancinb, pharmacy closures and staff availability. Service […]

What price life? Why naloxone should be everyone’s business THE NALOXONE DEBATE seems to be taking a long time to come to a conclusion but the NTA’s report on its recent pilots provide evidence to underline what many have been calling for for more than two years – a roll-out of the easy-to-administer and cost-effective overdose […]

[…] and were retained in, high quality treatment services, as well as provision of a wide range of therapies – including heroin-assisted treatment – and improved access to take-home naloxone. SDF is also launching a free e-learning course to coincide with the campaign, covering how to recognise an overdose and use naloxone to reverse it. ‘The […]

[…] Of the 31, only four people (13 per cent) survived long enough to make it to hospital, none of whom survived due to severe brain injury, and naloxone appeared to be ineffective. It is unclear whether, if given very quickly, very high doses of naloxone may work. In one case, a user was admitted […]

[…] means fewer drop-outs, fewer representations, and all of a sudden your positive outcomes and numbers are on the up.’ While Amy acknowledges some good initiatives – ‘ naloxone has been a game-changer, as long as you turn up to a service to pick it up’ – ultimately, she says, ‘we know that there are […]

[…] International Overdose Awareness Day we remember lives that have been lost, but we also want to make the message very clear: death from overdose is preventable with naloxone,’ said executive director of social care and health at change, grow, live (CGL), Mark Moody. ‘Opioid overdose remains a major cause of death amongst drug users […]

[…] be cared for by their owners, trained professionals and others at the service, and the kennels will enable people to live with their dogs while receiving treatment.   Naloxone campaign launched in North Somerset A ‘Keep Calm and Carry Naloxone’ campaign has been launched to help save lives in North Somerset. Addaction staff in Weston […]

[…] executive director Niamh Eastwood. Last month saw the launch of a comprehensive Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) review into the use of stop and search.   Naloxone knowledge A new information resource for naloxone campaigners, policy makers and service providers has been launched by the Naloxone Action Group (NAG). A range of useful […]

[…] 21 Jan 2015   @DDNMagazine Awful news. Same here. In Cardiff they are to scrap the CADT (Cardiff Alcohol& Drug Team) altogether with no other alternative.  PERRY bLAYMAN @PerryClaymanPCP 8 Jan 2015  @DDNMagazine good to seeb we're seeing ever increasing numbers of people coming to us as a result of addiction to so called "legal highs".   BOLTON bbG @BoltonCCG 28 Jan 2015 Having a #DryJanuary? Well done for proving to yourself you can say no to a tipple or two! Only a few days to go... http://dryjanuary.org.uk   HEPATITISSA  @hep_sa   20 Jan 2015 Got something to say to your MP about #HepC? Don't wait till it's too late. Do it here: http://hepatitissa.asn.au/special/parliamentary-inq.html KIRSTEN HORSBURGH  @kirstenlhb3  16 Jan 2015  Member of the Scottish Parliament? Please support this motion to highlight the importance of # naloxone in Scotland:  http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/b88 77.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S4M- 1b08b&ResultsPerPage=10  DDN welcomes your letters Please email the editor, claire@cjwellings.com, or post them to DDN, cJ wellings ltd, 57 High street, Ashford, Kent tN24 […]

[…] Innovation and Technology. The projects will explore how AI wearable technologies can detect overdoses and alert healthcare professionals or family members to provide lifesaving care, or how naloxone can be dispersed via drone. Twelve projects will receive funding from the Office for Life Sciences, as part of the Reducing Drug Deaths Innovation Challenge. The […]

[…] 89 the previous year.  However, all other healthcare indicators of harm and service utilisation remained ‘stable and below expected levels’, the alert says, with Scottish Ambulance Service naloxone incidents between September and November lower than in previous years and drug-related hospital admissions ‘considerably lower’. PHS has been publishing quarterly updates in response to the […]

[…] is the first to ‘champion harm reduction to meet people where they are and engage them in care and services’, the White House states, as interventions like naloxone and NSP are often still restricted or underfunded at community level. Less than 7 per cent of the 41m people needing treatment for substance issues were […]

[…] We Can Prevent Drug Deaths, urge people to learn how to recognise an overdose and to intervene to save lives, as well as to order their own naloxone kits.  Scotland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe, with 1,339 in 2020  – 90 per cent of which involved opioids – while provisional figures […]

Life-saving stuff Nearly 3,500 naloxone take-home kits have been issued in Scotland over the past year, giving the chance of emergency treatment for overdose that has proved to be life-saving – but our cover story shows, there is still a way to go.  Naloxone remains prescription only and not commonplace in environments where an […]

[…] said. ‘I am dedicated to supporting women’s progress in the public sector and ensuring gender equality and diversity, particularly through helping the most vulnerable in society.’   NALOXONE ACTION PLAN An ‘action summit on naloxone’ has taken place in London to create an immediate action plan for England ‘to cut the red tape which […]

[…] residents and social agencies, when able to use in safe and sterile conditions. Together with the NGOs Gadejuristen and Antidote, BF campaigns for the increased availability of naloxone (a team of BF members has been trained and licensed to administer naloxone, the first non-health personnel in Denmark to be permitted to do so); for […]

[…] started to come back. ‘Of those folks coming in solely for pipes, completely new to the programme, no previous engagement – 50 per cent walked out with naloxone. That’s huge, and it helped us get into communities and neighbourhoods that were unreachable prior to that.’ Even when people said they didn’t need naloxone, staff […]

[…] people who have gone ‘off the radar’ and connect them with help where they are. Crucially for overdose prevention, the team offers needle syringe provision, and lifesaving naloxone training. Staff carry naloxone – the overdose-reversal drug – and have trained food bank workers and community volunteers how to administer it, creating a network of […]

[…] ‘high-risk’ environments like hostels and prisons, the alert urges people to follow the correct harm reduction advice for opioids and polydrug use, and to ‘promote and provide’ naloxone. Nitazenes are increasingly found in post-mortem toxicology samples Nitazenes are now being widely detected in all parts of Scotland in both community and custodial settings, the […]

[…] how strategy influences practice, with lessons learnt being disseminated and implemented across the countr y. The move by Welsh Assembly Government to consider a national approach to naloxone, through its demonstration sites, is another example, making the strategy a meaningful framework for delivering harm reduction objectives. Despite the potential controversy such a life-saving initiative […]

[…] At the heart of Nic’s presentation was the argument that SUI doesn’t just improve services – it saves lives. One clear example of this is the peer-to-peer naloxone distribution programme. Opiate overdoses remain the leading cause of preventable deaths among users, and by putting naloxone in the hands of those most at risk through […]

[…] he change that has been buffeting the drugs field for the last five years was neatly contained in two images shown at HIT’s latest Hot Topics conference, held in Liverpool in November. On the first slide, shown to a captivated audience at the Foundation for Art and Technology, appeared an encrypted message sent to an online drug dealer. It appeared as a stream of 500 or so random letters and numbers. Total gobbledygook in fact. The second slide was the same email before being encrypted. It simply read: ‘Dear XXX. Please can I order some heroin? I’d like three grammes to my house in London at this address.’ What investigative journalist Mike Power, the author of  Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World bets High was showing the audience was how easy it is, with a bit of online know-how, to order any drug you want on the internet and get it delivered, no questions asked, to your front door from anywhere in the world. No shady bedsits or risky street corner transactions, just a polite email requesting to be sent one of the most vilified substances on the planet. Accompanied by other, highly fresh Hot Topics talks on  naloxone, legal highs, club drugs, the drug trade, harm reduction, sex work, employing users and policing, Power’s presentation shed light on the world’s rapidly changing drug market, and with it, a whole new raft of problems for those working in the harm reduction sector.  By way of Colombia, Cambodia, Liverpool and China, he described how recent developments in the way drugs are produced, sold and consumed has led to him to deduce that regulation is the only sensible way of stemming the decades of ‘bloodshed’ created by the war on drugs. What set him going on his investigation into the modern drug trade, he explained, was a story he covered in deepest Colombia in 2007, accompanying a UN-sponsored team whose job it was, backed with heavily armed Colombian soldiers, to destroy, field by field, as many coca plants as they could.  Power asked one of the coca farmers what he was going to do next in order to feed his family. The farmer explained that, economically, coca was the only feasible crop to grow. As soon as the soldiers had moved on, he’d start planting coca in the next field.  At the time, with cocaine use rocketing across much of the West, Power knew that what was happening in the Colombian field was indicative of the ‘relentless, circular, insane story’ of the drug war ‘that fascinated […]

[…] he change that has been buffeting the drugs field for the last five years was neatly contained in two images shown at HIT’s latest Hot Topics conference, held in Liverpool in November. On the first slide, shown to a captivated audience at the Foundation for Art and Technology, appeared an encrypted message sent to an online drug dealer. It appeared as a stream of 500 or so random letters and numbers. Total gobbledygook in fact. The second slide was the same email before being encrypted. It simply read: ‘Dear XXX. Please can I order some heroin? I’d like three grammes to my house in London at this address.’ What investigative journalist Mike Power, the author of  Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World bets High was showing the audience was how easy it is, with a bit of online know-how, to order any drug you want on the internet and get it delivered, no questions asked, to your front door from anywhere in the world. No shady bedsits or risky street corner transactions, just a polite email requesting to be sent one of the most vilified substances on the planet. Accompanied by other, highly fresh Hot Topics talks on  naloxone, legal highs, club drugs, the drug trade, harm reduction, sex work, employing users and policing, Power’s presentation shed light on the world’s rapidly changing drug market, and with it, a whole new raft of problems for those working in the harm reduction sector.  By way of Colombia, Cambodia, Liverpool and China, he described how recent developments in the way drugs are produced, sold and consumed has led to him to deduce that regulation is the only sensible way of stemming the decades of ‘bloodshed’ created by the war on drugs. What set him going on his investigation into the modern drug trade, he explained, was a story he covered in deepest Colombia in 2007, accompanying a UN-sponsored team whose job it was, backed with heavily armed Colombian soldiers, to destroy, field by field, as many coca plants as they could.  Power asked one of the coca farmers what he was going to do next in order to feed his family. The farmer explained that, economically, coca was the only feasible crop to grow. As soon as the soldiers had moved on, he’d start planting coca in the next field.  At the time, with cocaine use rocketing across much of the West, Power knew that what was happening in the Colombian field was indicative of the ‘relentless, circular, insane story’ of the drug war ‘that fascinated […]

[…] check drugs for synthetic opiates, through drug checking services in healthcare settings, in the nighttime economy and core community settings. A continued and accelerated role out of naloxone to key frontline public servants such as police, prison officers, GP’s and wider charitable services – with dosage required to address synthetic opiate overdose. Ease of […]

[…] heroin batches and pills sold as oxycodone or benzodiazepines. They are associated with high levels of sedation and respiratory depression, with overdoses often requiring multiple doses of naloxone.  Many in the treatment sector are concerned that the UK drug market may be flooded with synthetic opioids like nitazenes and fentanyl as a result of […]

[…] their mate. This group would have no or a very low baseline opioid tolerance to withstand the effects of a nitazene and would be unlikely to have naloxone, putting them at yet further risk. Deaths have escalated throughout 2023, most notably in the Birmingham area in July. Still recovering from a decade of budget […]

[…] Session two, Conference Hall PARTNERSHIP WORKING Peer power – a story of co-production Cranstoun’s team share their dynamic harm reduction initiatives. Alistair Bryant describes the PACKs peer team’s naloxone distribution and Luke O’Neil explains how they used innovative tech to create BuddyUp. From policy to practice Laura Pechey from the government’s Office for Health Improvement […]

[…] and we remain committed to collaborating with our partners to ensure that those in need receive the necessary assistance and support.’ ‘Countless’ lives have been saved by naloxone. Over the last ten days ‘countless’ lives had been saved by naloxone, added treatment team service manager at Bristol Drugs Project (BDP), Lydia Plant. ‘BDP can […]

[…] Gaps’ There were also ‘massive gaps’ in prison harm reduction, and barriers to effective therapies such as hepatitis C medication, which was ‘extraordinarily expensive’ in some countries. Naloxone, ‘one of the most cost-effective interventions in public health’, was still not enough of a priority in tackling the ‘massive issue’ of overdose. The data on […]

[…] are occurring are people who have used drugs for a long time and have underlying health issues as a result. Through measures such as increased provision of naloxone, easier access to safe needles and syringes, and testing and treatment for diseases such as hepatitis C, Humankind is focused on ensuring that people who use […]

[…] to the key developments for needle exchange, trainer and consultant Stephen Molloy wanted to know why all commissioners were not fully aware of the benefits of supplying naloxone. ‘How can we prevent people from standing beside the graves of their loved ones who have died needlessly?’ he asked, before giving a detailed reminder of […]

[…] Oscar, the DDN baby! Jason and Elizabeth met at a DDN conference and brought little Oscar to meet us at this year’s event       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 […]

[…] they are witness to an overdose death. Treatment agencies should provide them with information about, and support concerning, the giving of information and attending a coroner’s court. Naloxone, an opiate receptor antagonist, is used to reverse the life-threatening suppression of respiration caused by heroin. Whilst naloxone is often used by ambulance services to ‘revive’ […]

[…] treatment cash • More herbal cannabis on sale • News in brief 8 LETTERS AND COMMENT Don’t dismiss harm reduction; call for NTA change; buck passing on naloxone; FDAP event 9 POST-ITS FROM PRACTICE Dental pain needs recognising not ignoring, says Dr Chris Ford. 16 JOBS, COURSES, CONFERENCES, TENDERS CENTRE PAGES PULL-OUT: RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT […]

[…] ‘keep face-to-face contacts between staff and service users to a minimum’ and minimising use of biological drug testing, it says.  Provision of harm reduction measures and take-home naloxone, should be increased where possible Given the pressure the on NHS and other services it will ‘mostly be necessary to defer drug detoxes, especially inpatient’, the […]

[…] conference and a commitment to tackle stigma with the help of ‘More than my past’, Forward Trust’s national campaign. In the studio 10.30am – 11.10am Staying Alive Naloxone action! We hear from a dynamic peer-led network about getting naloxone into the right hands. With George Charlton and colleagues. The right dose: Let’s look at […]

[…] the harms and social isolation of drug users until there is enough political will to develop a drug policy which truly reflects the value of human life. Naloxone is not the answer to saving the lives of people who use drugs. Harm reduction is, of which naloxone is one important component. The proper support […]

People leaving prison are far more likely to die of a drug related cause. We know the overdose reversal drug naloxone saves lives, we just need to put this knowledge into practice. Research by King’s College London found that in England and Wales male prisoners are 29 times more likely to die in the […]

[…] a report for the ACMD on how to reduce deaths in 2016, he had recommended opioid substitution therapy (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), integrated services, and ‘putting naloxone everywhere’. Latest data from PHE showed that only 12 per cent of people were leaving prison with naloxone, when the odds of death from overdose were […]

[…] suffering from.’ The new Scottish drug strategy (see news, page 4) also had ‘some good things in it’, he added. ‘It endorses things like human rights, take-home naloxone, lived-experience advocacy and it takes a swipe at the UK stance on consumption rooms.’ However, while it was evidence-based that evidence was ‘highly selective’, he argued. […]

[…] the rise in drug-related deaths is ‘dramatic and tragic’, but proposes no concrete action plan to reduce them. For example, the strategy comments on the importance of naloxone to prevent overdose deaths but proposes no national systematic approach to naloxone provision, nor any new funding for this vital intervention. It is shocking that while […]

[…] heroin users, but people using any white powder drug – populations that are likely to be harder to reach with harm-reduction messages and less likely to have naloxone at point of overdose. Issuing warnings about fentanyls is a finely balanced judgement call, as premature warnings about ‘dangerous drugs’ can be counterproductive. On the one […]

[…] wait­ing till they’re all dead, while constantly saying “we need to do more”.’ What’s mad is that the people who are dying are not in service, while the naloxone doses are being given to those who are in service. But we’re in a situation where the budgets are being cut so severely that people are […]

[…] funding pressures,’ said ASH policy director, Hazel Cheeseman. Reading between the lines: results of a survey of tobacco control leads in local authorities in England at www.cancerresearchuk.org Naloxone notes A new Europe-wide review of the case for distributing naloxone has been published by EMCDDA. Preventing opioid overdose deaths with take-home naloxone includes good practice […]

[…] Our tips for other groups would be keep it fun, keep it real and keep it positive!   CoAct Mat Southwell, of CoAct, who co-chaired the lunchtime Naloxone – keeping up the campaign session, urged service user groups to lobby their local areas for naloxone provision. ‘It was great to see a better balance […]

[…] user sets their agenda for change. The need for harm reduction is as true now as it ever has been in that we need to keep people safe, so naloxone and needle and syringe exchanges are focused on doing this. Mat talked about a time when he was using drugs chaotically, which badly impacted on his life. He […]

[…] (left) and Jade (right) What does a typical day look like? Emma: ‘There is no typical day for me. One day I can be training people on naloxone use, promoting world health awareness days, attending incident review meetings, liaising with pharmacies or preparing for audits – the list is endless and exciting.’ Jade: ‘It’s […]

[…] heroin supply being contaminating by highly potent nitazenes.  Among the report’s other recommendations are the scaling up of properly funded drug checking services and testing kits, increasing naloxone supply, scaling up provision of diamorphine-assisted treatment, the implementation of overdose prevention centres and increasing the number of people accessing substitute medication and opioid treatment. The […]

HYK6WE A commuter reads a copy of a newspaper while waiting on the subway with a New York Dept. of Health advertisement urging people to carry Naloxone, an antidote for an opioid overdose, seen on Saturday, April 1, 2017. As an opioid epidemic spreads through the country, health departments are urging the carrying of […]

[…] respondents recruited from a city centre hostel. On average, respondents who reported overdosing in the last 12 months stated that they had overdosed twice in that time. Naloxone was administered by one or more persons in 38 per cent of all cases of a non-fatal overdose. These findings are unique because there is no […]

[…] death represents a tragedy for the individual concerned, their family and friends.’ The charity also urged the government to review the timetable for its proposed roll-out of naloxone provision – currently scheduled for October next year at the earliest – so that ‘this life-saving medication can be used as soon as possible, to prevent […]

[…] death represents a tragedy for the individual concerned, their family and friends.’ The charity also urged the government to review the timetable for its proposed roll-out of naloxone provision – currently scheduled for October next year at the earliest – so that ‘this life-saving medication can be used as soon as possible, to prevent more […]

[…] high quality treatment that anyone can access. We urge the government to make it easier for drug checking services to operate in local communities, continue to expand naloxone provision and explore the introduction of drug consumption rooms. We can’t keep watching people die while proven interventions sit on the shelf. The government can address […]

[…] support family members, we want to see a commitment to encourage every family affected by drug use to attend training on how to use life saving drug naloxone in the event that a family member overdoses. And encouragement doesn’t mean just making training available. Local areas need to be running training at times and […]

[…] than 1,100. However, provisional figures for March to May this year have already shown a 15 per cent increase on the previous quarter, with Scottish Ambulance Service naloxone incidents also up by 45 per cent. ‘I want to express my deepest condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the 1,107 people who […]

[…] for March to May this year showed a 15 per cent increase on the previous quarter, along with a 45 per cent increase in Scottish Ambulance Service naloxone administration incidents. Last month Public Health Scotland warned that highly potent nitazenes were now being ‘widely detected’ in all parts of the country in both community […]

[…] (RADAR) report from Public Health Scotland warned that suspected drug deaths across the country were up 15 per cent on the previous quarter, while Scottish Ambulance Service naloxone administration incidents had increased by 45 per cent – to an average of 84 per week (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/drug-related-harms-on-the-increase-across-scotland-warns-phs/). Naloxone administration incidents in NHS Ayrshire and Arran had risen […]