Naloxone – preliminary advice from the working group updating Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management

Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement
Naloxone – preliminary advice from the working group updating Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management

The working group updating the 2007 national clinical guidelines on drug treatment has published some preliminary advice [attatched] on naloxone before addressing its supply and use more fully in the published update next year.

The advice covers naloxone dosing in overdose situations, take-home naloxone products that can be supplied and training that should be provided, now and following legislation to make naloxone more widely available from October 2015 onwards.