Fact Sheets

Outlines factors that can put patients prescribed opioids or who use illicit opioids at a higher risk for opioid-related harms.

Describes for emergency department staff when to offer naloxone and highlights factors that can put patients at a higher risk for overdose.

Focuses on the role healthcare executives play in supporting training and education for clinicians on naloxone and opioid use disorder. Offers strategies to increase naloxone prescribing.

Pharmacists have an important role in dispensing naloxone and deciding when to offer it to patients.

General facts about naloxone including where to get it and how to prevent an opioid overdose.

How to identify an overdose and use naloxone. Also includes the side effects of naloxone.

Communicate the benefits of naloxone to patients, their family members, friends, and caregivers.

Start a conversation with a clinician or pharmacist about how to obtain naloxone, when to use it, and where to find training on giving naloxone.