Services Database The Provision of Take Home Naloxone (Pilot) (Portsmouth Area)

Aims and intended service outcomes
1.1. To pilot the provision of take home Naloxone in the Portsmouth City Council area.
1.2. To increase awareness and the availability of training and supply of Naloxone.
1.3. To provide training and supply of Naloxone to clients at risk of opiate overdose.
1.4. To provide clients with a convenient supply of replacement injectable naloxone
following emergency use or date expiry.
1.5. To help clients who use the service to access other health, voluntary and social care
services where appropriate to facilitate behaviour change in their journey toward
recovery.
1.6. This specification should be read alongside Public Health England guidance on take
home naloxone:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/669475/p
hetake-homenaloxoneforopioidoverdoseaug2017.pdf