Police Commissioners Welcome Rollout of Anti-Overdose Drug

Published on May 15, 2024

The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) has welcomed government plans to make the anti-overdose drug naloxone more widely available without a prescription. The Department of Health and Social Care announced on Tuesday plans to provide naloxone to paramedics, nurses, probation service workers, police officers and prison officers. Naloxone—which reverses breathing difficulties, which are a common symptom of an opioid overdose—can currently only be legally supplied without a prescription by a drug and alcohol treatment service. But with 40 overdoses a week in Britain, the government has accepted there is a need for naloxone to be more widely available....

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