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Take Home Naloxone Program (Emergency Opioid Overdose Treatment) via Participating Community Pharmacies

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Take Home Naloxone Program (Emergency Opioid Overdose Treatment) via Participating Community Pharmacies
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mk8 on 17/04/2025 - 20:18 health.gov.au (2139 clicks)
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Previous deal post. See also web page from Pharmacy Programs Administator.

<Please refrain from negative comments. Naloxone is a critical medication for saving lives in our community. Everyone deserves empathy and access to life-saving care, regardless of circumstances. Without exception.>

Under Australia's National Take Home Naloxone program, Naloxone nasal spray is available free of charge, without a prescription at participating pharmacies nationwide.

Naloxone quickly reverses life-threatening overdoses caused by opioids, including fentanyl, nitazenes, and other powerful substances, restoring breathing within seconds. Unfortunately, this also include 'party drugs' which are increasingly laced with deadly opioids, which is why this medication is super important to have on hard for party goers.

Having Naloxone could mean saving the life of a stranger, friend, or family member experiencing an overdose, providing critical recovery time until emergency services arrive.

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Comments

  • Bigfellaborham on 17/04/2025 - 20:20
    +44

    Only ODing I do is on eneloops

  • Lizard Spock on 17/04/2025 - 20:21
    +6

    I once went to a Method-One acting clinic

    • astr0b0y on 17/04/2025 - 20:50
      +36

      I wish you and all your family members and friends are all 'Winners' mate. Sometimes you'll never know.

      • BusMan247 on 18/04/2025 - 09:14

        True as well

    • Yummy on 17/04/2025 - 21:00
      +3

      There goes my $1 coin.

      • tenpercent on 17/04/2025 - 21:09
        +2

        That was for the bus brutha

        • 0 0 0 on 17/04/2025 - 21:26

          Thanks boss

    • krisspy on 17/04/2025 - 21:30
      +1

      Message endorsed by Lance Armstrong?

    • garygaz on 17/04/2025 - 21:56
      +3

      Functioning addicts are the scariest ones

      • Meconium on 20/04/2025 - 20:33
        +1

        Not to mention the most common and invisible (unless you've shared the addiction)

    • AustriaBargain on 18/04/2025 - 06:43
      +1

      that was just a FBI psyop to stop kids from using drugs

      • Meconium on 18/04/2025 - 22:59
        +2

        "Oh, Marge! That's just a trick to get you in there, so they can cure your foot pain."

        "Hmm… I guess…" [limps away]

    • BusMan247 on 18/04/2025 - 09:14

      True

    • 2esc on 18/04/2025 - 10:43
      +2

      I think you will be surprised at who actually do often people that use know who not to reveal that information.

      There are many that appear to function well in society until they dont.

      A friend of the family overdosed we were completely oblivious even his wife wasn't aware of it.

  • Gdsamp on 17/04/2025 - 20:34
    +7

    Deactivate Fent Reactor

  • SYLTB on 17/04/2025 - 20:35
    +3

    Opioid antagonist

    • tenpercent on 17/04/2025 - 21:07
      +2

      Opioid protagonist

  • AnnoyingEshayLad on 17/04/2025 - 20:36
    -2

    the liberals will be against this, but then lobby to have less restrictions on prescribing addictvie opioids

    • lachlantula on 17/04/2025 - 20:57
      +9

      you are making up a person who is not real

    • Yummy on 17/04/2025 - 21:01

      ^ deport.

    • jackspratt on 18/04/2025 - 01:31

      And the murderous cops wouldn't have gone to prison.

  • AnDyStYLe on 17/04/2025 - 20:40
    +23

    Great post for awareness.

    I actually had a 'back then'-mate that needed this waaaaay back in the days. He was lucky as paramedics got to him on time after an OD event to admin this for him. Funny thing, he cracked the absolute tantrums after he was saved as he said the paramedics wasted his "taste". Go figure!

    • MS Paint on 17/04/2025 - 20:42
      +14

      This is common.

    • AnDyStYLe on 17/04/2025 - 20:50
      +33

      Although that said, said mate is now a family man with kids and as I understand is living a healthy and clean life these days. Without the Naloxone, he would have been 6 feet under decades ago.

      Moral of the story, everyone needs a 2nd chance.

      • findthelimit on 17/04/2025 - 23:33
        +11

        Been in the same boat. I've OD'd probably a dozen times. Now married & a family man. Second chances FTW

        • Donmega123 on 18/04/2025 - 10:14

          12 times shit you sound like a way better parent than drug addict

          • Meconium on 18/04/2025 - 23:03

            @0 0 0: I know you are cos you said you are but

            what

            am

            I?

        • BlasterBoy on 19/04/2025 - 12:23

          Name checks out!

      • DrScavenger on 18/04/2025 - 06:03
        +7

        Being a "family man with kids" doesn't make one a good person.

        • tmcn85 on 18/04/2025 - 06:26
          -4

          It’s the definition of success and being a good person. Deal with it.

        • AnDyStYLe on 18/04/2025 - 06:29

          Being a "family man with kids" doesn’t make one a good person.

          Hang on… How did you even think to, what even made you decide to bring that one into the discussion?

          • hypie on 18/04/2025 - 08:59
            +2

            @AnDyStYLe: I had the exact same thought. Why people feel the need to post online for the sake of it. Do you feel better abour yourself?

            Congratulations to both of you above for confronting one of the hardest challenges that life/humanity can throw at you (addiction) and winning. You inspire many around you with your candour.

      • Serious Lee on 18/04/2025 - 06:30
        +3

        "Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own" Egg Shen

    • Bretttick on 17/04/2025 - 21:14
      -1

      Killed his buzz

    • teaBagger on 19/04/2025 - 21:09

      I reckon we know the same guy…. Situation exactly the same anyway.

  • OfficerBarbrady on 17/04/2025 - 20:42
    +8

    Apparently you can't get high off this for anyone else wondering.

    • 2025 on 17/04/2025 - 20:53
      +1

      Thanks I was about to ask

    • VBO on 17/04/2025 - 21:24
      +1

      what a bummer

    • Loopholio on 17/04/2025 - 22:17
      +2

      I'm gunna try anyway, ya lying liar!

    • Serious Lee on 18/04/2025 - 06:31

      This block opioid receptors in the body

    • marzzbar on 18/04/2025 - 07:40

      Not true. It has no effect of you're not already on opioids

  • 0 0 0 on 17/04/2025 - 20:45
    +11

    Drugs are bad mmmkay

    • jebdra on 23/04/2025 - 09:43

      Really ?

      All drugs under all circumstances?

      You sound like my mother's GP in 1982

      My mother got secondaries from lung cancer - liver and other organs. Given 3 months.

      Her GP said "paracetamol is a perfectly good pain killer. I'm not giving you opioids because they are addictive"

      I contacted silver chain, got script for 2 big bottles of morphine and was basically told " give her was much we she needs"

  • astr0b0y on 17/04/2025 - 20:46
    +15

    I have never had to use it but have been offered it when I had my hip replacement and was placed on opioid based medication in case of adverse reaction.
    I think this is a great service when it can save lives as first aid.

    • Joda on 18/04/2025 - 13:19
      +1

      Yeah, great service …

      Who offered it - hospital/specialist/GP/pharmacist?
      I'm surprised at the common sense of this - how long ago was this?

      • astr0b0y on 18/04/2025 - 14:28
        +1

        The pharmacy did because they knew me and I have never taken the medication that I was prescribed before. This was 2 years ago.

        • Joda on 18/04/2025 - 15:54
          +1

          Much praise to your pharmacist!

          I know people who have had hip operations - given opioids without any mention of overdose or addiction.
          Hopefully things are changing.

    • AdModnar on 17/04/2025 - 21:20
      +6

      how much are human lives worth?

      • tenpercent on 17/04/2025 - 21:23
        -2

        how much are human lives worth?

        More than 'free'

        • AdModnar on 17/04/2025 - 21:26
          +2

          and even perhaps more than the less than $1 per member of population that the approximately $20M quoted there represents

          • tenpercent on 17/04/2025 - 21:35
            +5

            @AdModnar: I don't think everyone is going to use it though so that maths doesn't add up.

            Here's some better maths…

            According to the pilot study the program helped save1 3 lives per day.

            The funding is for 4 years.

            Assuming the expanded program works as well as the pilot study, then we might expect 3 x 365 x 4 = 4380 lives "saved" at a cost of $19,600,000, or approx. $4475 per "saved" life.

            1. their definition of "save" is a little spurious as it includes improved prognosis in addition to the usual understanding of prevented death, but let's go with it. ↩

            • 2025 on 17/04/2025 - 22:05
              +4

              @tenpercent:

              $4475 per "saved" life

              Tell him his dreaming.

              Highest I’d go is $4450

            • shoppe on 17/04/2025 - 23:31
              +4

              @tenpercent: Statistics damn statistics. Lies. What if the same person is helped 3 times a day, for 365 days, for four years. Lives saved = 1. But the fourth year is a leap year, so lives saved = 0.

              • Wort on 18/04/2025 - 01:09

                @shoppe: What happens if…what's the point of a comment like this?

                What happens if each time a hospital admission is avoided? - allowing more resource to be redirected to other patients?

                • shoppe on 18/04/2025 - 10:59
                  +2

                  @Wort: The point is to not believe statistics. Statistics are missleading.

            • DrScavenger on 18/04/2025 - 06:06

              @tenpercent: But shouldn't you add the cost of paramedics to that? Since it's not just this drug, paramedics come and check too?

              • spaceflight on 18/04/2025 - 08:19

                @DrScavenger: Paramedics would still attend even if the program did not exist so it's not really an extra cost.

            • hypie on 18/04/2025 - 09:07

              @tenpercent: I can guarantee you that there is far more ridoculous spending by government orgnisations in Australia.

              Dont forget…

              One hospitalisation costs around $1000 per day. One ICU stay is $10,000 a day.

              • tenpercent on 18/04/2025 - 20:03

                @hypie: I don't doubt it. When they get posted as 'deals' that are allegedly free, I'll be sure to comment on them and highlight the actual cost.

            • AdModnar on 18/04/2025 - 13:08
              +3

              @tenpercent: thanks tenpercent
              I wasn't considering "per use" but per person overall, the scale of the expenditure. The idea that govt expends (now I know is for 4 years) less than 25c per person in the population per year to increase the chance that some people survive a bad time is not at all to me a bad thing.
              I also find it a little strange that govt expenditure usually gets listed (like you did) for something that is "free", provided by govt, but (almost?) never when a company gives something for "free". When a company does it, that seems to be considered 'genuinely free'. I don't remember ever seeing similar comment on a commercial giveaway thing. Can you point to any?
              I get that taxpayer money is important (I am a taxpayer!), but isn't suppliers', customers', shareholders' etc money also important??

              • tenpercent on 18/04/2025 - 20:02

                @AdModnar:

                I wasn't considering "per use" but per person overall

                I wasn't considering per use either. I was considering per person "saved" (which is presumably the return on investment).

                I don't remember ever seeing similar comment on a commercial giveaway thing. Can you point to any?

                I don't see the relevance to my comments here.

                But since you asked, you can probably find a few comments especially when movies/shows on Netflix are posted as freebies (with the spurious justification from the OP that it is a targetted offer to people who already have a subscription so it's allegedly free for them?). I recall commenting on the Oppenheimer post a while back.

                When a company genuinely offers something for free (free to the customer), e.g. a free sample outside a train station, they are hoping to convince you that you like the product and want to buy more of it. So from the company and shareholder perspective the cost of that thing is just a marketing expense.

        • Serious Lee on 18/04/2025 - 06:32

          Unless your Palestinian

      • Klogg86 on 18/04/2025 - 20:13

        Depends on the life

    • garygaz on 17/04/2025 - 22:05

      https://shorturl.at/gV53x

      • tenpercent on 17/04/2025 - 22:12

        Did you draw this yourself? You even got my bionic eye and fingers!

  • Benoffie on 17/04/2025 - 20:48
    +5

    Honestly, should be part of workplace and school FA kits.

    You think Im crazy, but Ive seen enough ODs at school (thankfully? parents mainly but in senior colleges not unheard of)

    • bargainhunter on 18/04/2025 - 07:28
      +1

      P&F meetings?

      • Benoffie on 18/04/2025 - 13:12
        +1

        Honestly, the number of parents who come to school high is just crazy.

    • mk8 on 18/04/2025 - 13:08
      +3

      Every club, music venue and festival should have this on hand, mandatorily. It's effectively essential First Aid, just like a Heart Defibrillator.

      It's actually 'party drugs' that lead to most cases of unexpected OD, rather than depressant themselves. The people commenting (and rightfully being downvoted) are completely naive to the realities of who in their lives this could save.

      • Benoffie on 18/04/2025 - 13:14

        Agree and AEDs should also be installed at every school at the front office.

        Most public schools dont have them.

  • buy swap sell on 17/04/2025 - 20:55
    +44

    I once did CPR as a security officer on a young woman in ACT who had overdosed. She was blue in between each breath and chest compression. Paramedics took some time to arrive and 2 doses of Narcan to bring her back and she walked away. Was all auto pilot until afterwards when the Paramedics explained to her how grave she was and how lucky she was to have me there to keep her alive before emotions took over and we both realised what happened. Hopefully she turned her life around. But I will never forget it.

    • jmc787 on 17/04/2025 - 21:37
      +6

      good job mate

      • dd8889 on 18/04/2025 - 06:32
        +10

        Sounds like someone who needed ambulance got it and may have died otherwise

      • Serious Lee on 18/04/2025 - 06:35
        +1

        Perhaps it's time to find the source of your ignorance. People are getting addicted because they have problems (loneliness, low self-esteem etc). Whatever they are addicted to supposed to be the solution

        • Donmega123 on 18/04/2025 - 10:11
          -1

          Heroin withdrawal is medically unserious, unlike alcohol withdrawal. Heroin withdrawal has been hyped for hundreds of years, it's basically a bad cold. There's a book about it called romancing opiates that is worth reading

          • Meconium on 18/04/2025 - 23:09

            @Donmega123: A lethal opioid overdose however, which this drug is to be used for, is more common than a lethal alcohol overdose.

            • Donmega123 on 19/04/2025 - 13:21

              @Meconium: Man I used to know people that did speedballs, I think the whole possibly dying thing was part of it.

          • reu on 21/04/2025 - 19:05

            @Donmega123: I'm not expert but I think that living life without the crutch/mask/friend that opioids provide is the scary part, not so much the withdrawal.

  • Wiadro on 17/04/2025 - 20:56
    -3

    yum dinner

    • Yummy on 17/04/2025 - 21:01

      R U OK?

      • Wiadro on 17/04/2025 - 21:11
        -1

        R U @Yummy

        • Yummy on 17/04/2025 - 22:12

          Always

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