Overdose prevention

Hello fellow bloggers! and more greetings from London. I'm posting this question/comment about naloxone and overdose prevention in the hope that we can get naloxone more widely available in the UK. I recently was in New Mexico to look at the way they offer naloxone to current users. Users are trained up in OD management and then given (prescribed) two syringes with naloxone ready to use. It was amazing to see how this worked, and to hear the report of one user who returned for a refill- he had saved at least one life with what he had been given. Just stunning ...

Here in the UK there are 'medico-legal' reasons not to allow narcan to be distributed more freely and some of the work is about giving relatives the prescription instead. After I left New Mexico I also heard that several n/ex's in NYC are approaching naloxone this same way. Do any of you know about that? What were the problems in getting this set up etc? Are there any published reports of this approach? Thinking the right approach is to get a one day meeting set up to discuss and make a plan of action.

Peter Phillips