Calls are being made for a heroin ‘overdose antidote’ to be made more freely available here after a scheme in Northern Ireland may have saved almost 100 lives over the past five years.
Naloxone is a medication that rapidly reverses and restores the breathing of a person overdosing from heroin or prescription opioid pain medications.
Here in Ireland, it is available by prescription to named persons who may be at risk of an overdose, as well as to trained individuals. In the UK it is far more widely available.
In that jurisdiction, the Take Home Naloxone scheme also makes it available to people who are likely to witness and respond to an overdose, such as a family members.
Soure: Rónán Duffy, The Journal.ie, 25/07/17
Posted by drugs.ie on 07/25 at 08:50 AM in
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