Key points
Clinicians play an important role in raising awareness about naloxone. Talk with your patients and their family, friends, and caregivers about the benefits of naloxone. Help reduce the stigma sometimes experienced with its use.
Naloxone trainings
Naloxone training is offered as a full module or as separate mini-modules and patient cases. Choose one or more of the mini-modules or patient cases if you prefer a quick training to focus on a specific topic or to improve a skill.
Full module: Talking about Naloxone
This module includes an optional risk factors assessment for opioid-related harms and provides communication tips and strategies for engaging in and conducting a conversation with patients about naloxone. CE is available.
LAUNCH: Talking about Naloxone
Mini-module
Select these shorter trainings if you prefer not to take the full module.
Assessing Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose
Test your knowledge of the factors that increase a patient's risk for an opioid overdose. Understanding these risk factors will help you potentially save a life. CE is available.
LAUNCH: Assessing Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose
Engaging Patients in a Conversation about Naloxone
Learn how to start a conversation with patients about naloxone and educate them about the risk of overdose and the role naloxone can have in preventing overdoses. CE is available.
LAUNCH: Engaging Patients in a Conversation about Naloxone
Reducing Stigma Surrounding Naloxone
Learn how to communicate about naloxone in a manner that is caring, compassionate, and non-stigmatizing. CE is available.
LAUNCH: Reducing Stigma Surrounding Naloxone
Interactive Patient Cases
Sonja J.
Practice strategies for engaging patients and their family, friends, and caregivers in a conversation about naloxone.
Alex P.
Apply what you have learned about engaging with patients who could benefit from having naloxone on hand.
Leon W.
Test your understanding about how to effectively communicate with patients about naloxone and help eliminate the stigma associated with its use.
Conversation starters
Start talking about the role naloxone can have in saving lives.
Talking About Naloxone with Patients Prescribed Opioids
Audience: Clinicians
Communicate the benefits of naloxone to patients, their family members, friends, and caregivers.
PDF - Talking About Naloxone with Patients Prescribed Opioids
How to Save a Life with Naloxone
Audience: Family Members and Caregivers
Start a conversation with a clinician or pharmacist about how to obtain naloxone, when to use it, and where to find training on giving naloxone.
PDF - How to Save a Life with Naloxone
Fact sheets
When to Offer Naloxone to Patients
Audience: Clinicians
Outlines factors that can put patients prescribed opioids or who use illicit opioids at a higher risk for opioid-related harms.
PDF - When to Offer Naloxone to Patients
When to Offer Naloxone to Patients in the Emergency Department
Audience: Clinicians
Describes for emergency department staff when to offer naloxone and highlights factors that can put patients at a higher risk for overdose.
PDF - When to Offer Naloxone to Patients in the Emergency Department
Increase Naloxone Prescribing in your Health System
Audience: Healthcare Administrators
Focuses on the role healthcare executives play in supporting training and education for clinicians on naloxone and opioid use disorder. Offers strategies to increase naloxone prescribing.
PDF - Increase Naloxone Prescribing in your Health System
The Pharmacists' Role in Naloxone Dispensing
Audience: Pharmacists
Pharmacists have an important role in dispensing naloxone and deciding when to offer it to patients.
PDF - The Pharmacists' Role in Naloxone Dispensing
What you Need to Know about Naloxone
Audience: Family Members and Caregivers
General facts about naloxone including where to get it and how to prevent an opioid overdose.
PDF - What You Need to Know about Naloxone
How and When to Use Naloxone for an Opioid Overdose
Audience: Family Members and Caregivers
How to identify an overdose and use naloxone. Also includes the side effects of naloxone.
PDF - How and When to Use Naloxone for an Opioid Overdose