Naloxone is available free at all pharmacies in Edinburgh who deliver injecting equipment provision services. It can also be obtained at our drop in at Spittal St Centre, Recovery Hubs and many drug treatment and associated areas throughout Lothian.
If you are being treated for a drug problem by your G.P. or have a close contact who is at risk, ask your G.P. for naloxone.
Pharmacies who can supply free naloxone
- Boots 48 Shandwick Place EH2 4SA
- Calder Park Pharmacy 18 Calder Park, Edinburgh EH11 4JN
- Craigmillar Pharmacy 58-60 Niddrie Mains Road EH16 4BG
- Lindsay & Gilmour 228-230 Crewe Road North EH5 2NS
- Lindsay & Gilmour 257a Leith Walk EH6 8NY
- M & D Greens 291 Calder Road EH11 4RH
- Newington Pharmacy 46-50 Clerk Street EH8 9JB
- Omnicare Pharmacy 3 Ardmillan Terrace EH11 2JN
- Omnicare Pharmacy 102 Walter Scott Avenue EH16 5RL
For more information on free naloxone, see the ODnotMe Poster.
Naloxone is a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses, saving the lives of people who are at risk of drug related death. In 2015 legislation was passed to allow the supply of this Prescription Only Medicine (POM), without the need for a prescription or Patient Group Direction. The legislation is specific to services which provide drug treatment i.e. provide Opioid Substitute Treatment (OST) or Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP).
This framework relates only to the supply of naloxone hydrochloride injection (Prenoxad) or intransal naloxone (Nyxoid) for lay administration and includes actions which must be followed. You must be authorised by name and have undertaken local naloxone supply competency framework training, under the current version of this framework to be able to issue supplies of Naloxone. To support your learning, please complete the short Learn Pro module on Take Home Naloxone for NHS staff or alternatively, the Scottish Drugs Forum Overdose Prevention, Intervention and Naloxone elearning module.
Download: NHS Lothian Take Home Naloxone Supply Competency Framework
NHS Lothian Take Home Naloxone Supply Record
Click here for the SDF Naloxone module
Authorisation to supply using this framework only allows supplies to be made under the framework as specified; supplies issued on prescription or by patient group directive (PGD) must be made by the appropriately trained person.
To support your work supplying naloxone, the approved NHS Lothian Patient Information Leaflet is also available here for download, printed copies are also available from Spittal Street Centre.
The supply record form should be used to record each supply for statistical purposes. Neo 360 database can be used in Edinburgh if available to your service.
For Edinburgh based services, these forms should be emailed by secure email to loth.naloxone@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk or be returned by post to Naloxone Lead, Spittal Street Centre, Edinburgh.
For West Lothian based services, please email the forms to Iain.MacLeod@nhs.scot or post to Iain MacLeod, SMS, West Lothian Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF
For East and Midlothian based services, please email the froms by secure email to lothian.meld@nhs.net or by post to MELD, The Esk Centre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, EH21 6AB
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Nyxoid is the commercial name for intranasal naloxone. It is authorised for use in NHS Lothian’s formulary for purchase and prescribing, and is now available for supply from the Harm Reduction Team. The training materials are provided here, at the foot of the page.
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