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Opioid Safety and How To Use Naloxone: What Is An Opioid Overdose? Common Opioids Include

An opioid overdose occurs when a person's breathing slows or stops due to taking too many opioids. Common opioids include hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, codeine, fentanyl, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and methadone. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse an opioid overdose. It can be administered via nasal spray, auto-injector, or injection. In case of overdose, check responsiveness, call 911, administer naloxone, and provide rescue breathing and chest compressions until help arrives.

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Opioid Safety and How To Use Naloxone: What Is An Opioid Overdose? Common Opioids Include

An opioid overdose occurs when a person's breathing slows or stops due to taking too many opioids. Common opioids include hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, codeine, fentanyl, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and methadone. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse an opioid overdose. It can be administered via nasal spray, auto-injector, or injection. In case of overdose, check responsiveness, call 911, administer naloxone, and provide rescue breathing and chest compressions until help arrives.

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What is Common opioids

an opioid include:
overdose? GENERIC BRAND NAME
Vicodin, Lorcet, Lortab,
Opioid safety
Hydrocodone
Norco, Zohydro
Percocet, OxyContin,
and how to use
Oxycodone
Opioids can cause bad reactions that
Roxicodone, Percodan
MSContin, Kadian,
naloxone
Morphine
make your breathing slow or even stop. Embeda, Avinza
This can happen if your body can’t handle Tylenol with Codeine,
Codeine
the opioids that you take that day. TyCo, Tylenol #3
Fentanyl Duragesic, Actiq
Hydromorphone Dilaudid
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Butrans
• Be extra careful if you miss or change
* Heroin is also an opioid.
doses, feel ill, or start new medications.
For patient education, videos and
additional materials, please visit A GUIDE FOR PATIENTS
Now that you have www.prescribetoprevent.org AND CAREGIVERS

naloxone…
Tell someone where it is and
how to use it.

SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
2016
In case of overdose: How to give naloxone:
There are 4 common naloxone products. Follow the instructions for the type you have.

1 Check reponsiveness Nasal spray Auto-injector


Look for any of the following:
This nasal spray needs no assembly and can be The naloxone auto-injector
• No reponse even if you shake them sprayed up one nostril by pushing the plunger. needs no assembly and can
or say their name Nozzle be injected into the outer
thigh, even through clothing.
• Breathing slows or stops
Plunger It contains a speaker that
• Lips and fingernails turn blue or gray provides step-by-step
• Skin gets pale or clammy instructions.

Nasal spray with assembly Injectable naloxone


This requires assembly. Follow the instructions below. This requires assembly. Follow the instructions below.
2 Call 911 and give naloxone
If no reaction in 3 minutes,
give second naloxone dose 1 Take of yellow caps.
1 Remove cap from naloxone
vial and uncover the needle.

2 Screw on white cone.


2 Insert needle through rubber
plug with vial upside down.
Pull back on plunger and take
3 Do rescue breathing
and/or chest compressions 3 Take purple cap of
capsule of naloxone.
up 1 ml.
fill to

3
1 ml
Follow 911 dispatcher instructions Inject 1 ml of naloxone into
an upper arm or thigh muscle.

4 Gently screw capsule of naloxone


into barrel of syringe.

>> STAY WITH PERSON


UNTIL HELP ARRIVES.
5 Insert white cone into nostril;
give a short, strong push on
end of capsule to spray naloxone
into nose: ONE HALF OF THE
CAPSULE INTO EACH NOSTRIL.

4
Push to spray.

6 If no reaction in 3 minutes, give second dose.


.
If no reaction in 3 minutes, give second dose.

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