Berkeley County Health Department's 24 Hour Accessible Naloxone Emergency Kit Vending Machine
We are proud to be able to provide access to life saving Naloxone Emergency Kits 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through the purchase of a climate controlled outdoor vending machine for the community.
Naloxone is one important step when helping someone who is overdosing.
If you think that someone is overdosing on an opioid or another substance:
Administer naloxone or another opioid overdose reversal medication (if available) and then call 911.
Try to keep the person awake and breathing.
Lay the person on their side to prevent choking.
Stay with the person until emergency assistance arrives.
Naloxone quickly reverses an overdose by blocking the effects of opioids. It can restore normal breathing within 2 to 3 minutes in a person whose breath has slowed, or even stopped, as a result of opioid overdose.
Start by administering one dose of naloxone and wait 2-3 minutes to see if normal breathing returns before giving a second dose. Giving more than one dose of naloxone may not be necessary.
*Most states have Good Samaritan Laws that may protect a person who is overdosing or the person who called for help from legal trouble.
Some situations and conditions may make an opioid overdose more likely.
The following factors increase risk of opioid overdose:
• A history of overdose
• Patients with sleep-disordered breathing
• Patients taking benzodiazepines with opioids
• Patients at risk of returning to a high dose for which they have lost tolerance (e.g., patients undergoing tapering or recently released from prison)
• Patients taking higher dosages of opioids (e.g., ≥50 MME/day)
• A history of substance use disorder
For more information visit: Lifesaving Naloxone | Stop Overdose | CDC
