The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7405 p708
17 June 2006

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Naloxone pilots launched

A two-month pilot scheme to evaluate the role of naloxone in reducing drug-related deaths will start in Lanarkshire next month.

Lanarkshire’s Alcohol and Drugs Action Team, NHS Lanarkshire, the Scottish Drugs Forum and the Scottish Ambulance Service are working together to make naloxone available to drug services nurses and high-risk drug users. The pilot scheme may also make naloxone available to friends and family of drug users under a patient group direction, yet to be finalised. A similar six-month pilot scheme in Glasgow was given the go-ahead last week.