Use Naloxone
If someone has overdosed, always call for an ambulance.
If there is someone else with you, get them to call while you administer naloxone.
Stay with the person until the ambulance arrives.
Recognise an opioid overdose
- Unresponsive
- Breathing - shallow or stopped
- Snoring (rattling breath)
- Skin - pale or ashen
- Lips and fingernails - blue or grey
- Watch how to recognise an opioid overdose (Prenoxad)
Respond to an opioid overdose
Injectable naloxone
- Call 999
- Breathing status:
- a. If not breathing - Start CPR
- b. If breathing - Put them in the recovery position
- Give them naloxone
- If not breathing - Continue CPR
- If no response after 2 mins, give another dose
- Stay with them until ambulance arrives
Nasal spray naloxone
- Call 999
- Give them naloxone
- Breathing status:
- a. If not breathing - Start CPR
- b. If breathing - Put them in the recovery position
- If no response after 2 mins, give second dose in other nostril
- If not breathing - Continue CPR
- Stay with them until ambulance arrives