Supplying take home naloxone without a prescription
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A guide to the legislation enabling drug services and others to supply take home naloxone without a prescription to save a life in an emergency.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
A guide to the legislation enabling drug services and others to supply take home naloxone without a prescription to save a life in an emergency. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Naloxone: the opioid overdose antidote
- People who can supply naloxone without a prescription
- Relevant legislation
- Supplying naloxone without a prescription
- Drug services
- Registration service for non-named professionals and services to supply take home naloxone
- Supply outside the 2015, 2019 and 2024 regulations
- Police forces and custody suites
- Products that services and professionals can supply
- Deciding who can supply naloxone to whom
- People who can be supplied naloxone
- Children and young people
- Clinical and other governance
- Training
- Data collection and record keeping
- Stock and medicines management
Source and licence
Department of Health and Social Care
AttributionDepartment of Health and Social Care, ‘Supplying take home naloxone without a prescription’ (updated 12 September 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026