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NALOXONE

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Producer(s)	Dan Bigg
Director(s)	Michael Simborg
Release Date	2001
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Youth Media	n
Educational Materials	Yes

Film Description

Participants in Chicago Recovery Alliance’s (CRA) harm reduction outreach report witnessing frequent heroin overdoses, including deaths. Complicating matters is the realistic fear that summoning emergency help may lead to police arrest. In a survey about the overdose prevention program, one participant commented: “I’m thinkin, ‘oh my god, I’m going to jail. Oh, my god, my friend’s gonna die’ I don’t want him to die, but I got, like, 20 bags of dope in the car. I don’t want to go to jail.” Naloxone (narcan) is a pure opiate antagonist that has been used routinely for decades in the emergency treatment of opioid overdose. Naloxone has no abuse potential whatsoever, no potential for overdose, is easy to store and carry, and the generic formulation is extremely inexpensive ($0.25 - $0.50/dose).

Beginning as an HIV prevention program in 1992, Chicago Recovery Alliance has maintained a focus on assisting ‘any positive change’, and as heroin overdose deaths soared through the late 1990s it seemed not only logical but necessary to include overdose prevention. In 2001 CRA launched a program to prescribe and dispense naloxone to active opiate users. All participants who are prescribed naloxone receive training in its use. This film was developed by Chicago Recovery Alliance, with the help of our participants, to assist in that training. This film is dedicated to our participants, without whose courage and dedication to caring for themselves, our work would not be possible.

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Last Updated On:	May 22, 2012

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