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Prepare Your Community

Accidental opioid overdoses can happen anywhere, anytime. Educate your community about over-the-counter NARCAN® Nasal Spray.

EDUCATE AND EQUIP YOUR COMMUNITY

NARCAN® Nasal Spray has been approved as an over-the-counter medicine and no longer requires a prescription or standing order to obtain. This approval may make it easier to ensure your communities have access to this life saving medicine.

Qualified public entities such as government entities, first responders, community organizations, schools and universities can purchase at a discounted price through NARCANDirect™.

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TARGETED NALOXONE DISTRIBUTION: ONE EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY TO HELP ADDRESS OPIOID EMERGENCIES.

Why this strategy helps

By equipping individuals with naloxone and training to identify and respond to an overdose, the potential delay between the onset of an opioid overdose and the delivery of life-saving care can be reduced from hours to seconds.

This strategy is useful when:

  • Naloxone is provided to people at high risk of experiencing or witnessing overdose.
  • Harm Reduction agencies and trusted clinicians are properly educated and comfortable distributing naloxone to those using illicit opioids or receiving a high-risk opioid prescription.

NALOXONE DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS

Emergent has collaborated on and researched several types of naloxone distribution models to allow more community access to NARCAN® Nasal Spray.

If you or your organization is interested in learning more about the distribution program that will fit best for your entity or to contact a director of community health solutions in your area, please send us an email at narcancustomerservice@ebsi.com or call 1-844-4NARCAN (1-844-462-7226).

DID YOU KNOW?

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In the 12 months ending September 2023, there were an estimated 84,000 overdose deaths due to opioids.

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Naloxone administration results in high rates of successful opioid overdose reversal. Opioid overdose events where naloxone is administered are reversed at rates between 83%-100%.

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Take-home naloxone kits and Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) implementation lead to reduced opioid-related deaths when compared to communities with lower rates of distribution.

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37 to 90 percent of fatal overdoses were reduced at the community level due to naloxone distribution.

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As the opioid epidemic has progressed, illicit drugs have become more potent and pervasive. Most people who use illegal drugs do not think they will die of an overdose, but accidents happen. Accidental overdoses do not have to be fatal.

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Naloxone, the active ingredient in NARCAN® Nasal Spray competes with the opioids that bind with the same receptors in the brain and can quickly restore normal breathing to save the life of a person who is overdosing on opioids such as heroin or fentanyl.

A field teSt was done comparing 8mg and 4mg Intranasal Naloxone

In this field test, the increased dosage did not demonstrate added benefit*, even in light of the increased prevalence of synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, in the drug supply.

Those given Naloxone were less likely to experience postnaloxone opioid withdrawal signs and symptoms with 4mg intranasal naloxone compared to 8mg.

*Improved survival or reduced hospital transport


FIELD TEST STUDY DESIGN AND RESULTS

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NALOXONE DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS

Emergent has collaborated on and researched several types of naloxone distribution models to allow more community access to NARCAN® Nasal Spray.

If you or your organization is interested in learning more about the distribution program that will fit best for your entity or to contact a director of community health solutions in your area, please send us an email at narcancustomerservice@ebsi.com or call 1-844-4NARCAN (1-844-462-7226).

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Request an educational packet for complete information regarding NARCAN® Nasal Spray.

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