Welcome
Welcome to take-homenaloxone.com. This is a website run by independent academics and healthcare professionals aimed at raising the awareness and profile of the use of take-home naloxone as a mechanism for reducing drug-related death, and to provide a forum for discussing innovation, training and practice developments. Whether you are a drug user, carer, policymaker or are working in the substance misuse field take-homenaloxone.com provides a complete guide on the use of take-home naloxone.
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THN projects around the world
Click on the different continents to see the information regarding THN projects in that region.
We have compiled contact lists, training material and some information regarding the projects that you may find useful.
In the News
24/07/10
The New York Times - USA
‘A Shot That Saves the Lives of Addicts Is Now in Their Hands’ The drug he administers to fellow heroin users is called Naloxone or Narcan, its brand name. Mr. Kamenicky estimated that in the last few years he had brought back from the deadly depths of heroin overdose at least 35 addicts — in abandoned buildings, crack houses and around kitchen tables…Click Here
18/07/10
The Santa Fe New Mexican - USA
‘State program provides drug users with clean needles, tools to reverse overdoses’ On Tuesdays, Jeanne Block, a contract nurse for the state Health Department, travels with Galer down dirt roads, parking at wide spots where she preaches the passion that is Narcan, a narcotic that is pumped into the nose and has reversed some 800 overdoses in New Mexico…Click Here
17/07/10
The Santa Fe New Mexican - USA
‘New Mexico on forefront of dispersing Narcan’ Since 2001, there have been more than 800 overdose reversals documented from the 2,300 times Narcan was used in New Mexico…Click Here
16/07/10
The Western Front - USA
‘Law seeks to curb overdose deaths’ In addition to giving legal protection to those who overdose, the law increases the availability of a drug called naloxone. This is used to counter the effects of overdoses from prescription narcotics such as oxycodone. Doctors in Washington state can now prescribe naloxone. State residents are allowed to give it to someone suffering from a prescription-drug related overdose. …Click Here
16/07/10
Evening Times - UK
‘Drugs trouble doubles for city medics’ Glasgow piloted a programme to help save lives, with a drug which can reverse the effects of a heroin overdose and buy time until emergency services can arrive. Naloxone was trialled in Glasgow after a Scottish Government programme with other agencies including the Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF)… Click Here
10/07/10
Janesville Gazette - USA
‘Beloit man faces homicide charge in overdose death’ Fewer people are dying of heroin overdoses because users carry Narcan, a drug used to revive victims of heroin overdoses, officials said…Click Here
