Increase availability of naloxone in the community – here’s why:
“Synthetic opiates and a sedative may be behind rise of fatal overdoses in West Midlands”.
CGL Walsall are advising providers of supervised methadone to provide Naloxone to known drug users. If they are resistant try offering Naloxone to family and friends.
Contact Jack Rubery @ CGL
Why? In 2023, Midlands Coroners were quoted in an article published in The Guardian, with stark warnings about the dangers of increasing potent adulterants implicated in fatalities referred to the Coroner. They were highlighting nizatenes and xylazine in this instance but
Street drugs are frequently mixtures of drugs. Synthetic opiates are increasingly replacing heroin from natural sources leading to drugs being “cut” with a range of compounds of unknown toxicity.
