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New partnership aims to reduce drug-related deaths across Fife
Created: 03/03/2025
News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
A new partnership is helping to prevent drug-related deaths in Fife. NHS Fife, charity With You, and local pharmacies are working together to tackle the issue.
Figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed a 12% increase in drug misuse deaths in 2023, with opioids like heroin and morphine being the most common drugs linked to deaths.
One of the key strategies to reduce the harms associated with illicit substances is the distribution of naloxone kits to known users of opioids.
Naloxone works by interrupting opioid receptors in the body and reverses the effects of an overdose involving powerful opioids such as heroin, fentanyl, and nitazenes.
In October 2023, a new national service was launched by the Scottish Government and Community Pharmacy Scotland to enable community pharmacies to provide emergency access to supplies of naloxone.
All 86 community pharmacies in Fife are now registered to provide this service.
A recent expansion saw the development of a Take Home Naloxone service, where pharmacies can provide overdose awareness training and naloxone kits to people at risk of overdose, and their friends and family members.
This saw representatives from NHS Fife’s pharmacy service working alongside harm reduction charity, With You, to provide face-to-face training for community pharmacy staff.
Over 60 pharmacies have signed up to the Take Home Naloxone service, with more than 300 pharmacy staff from across Fife having already received training.
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