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First aid courses and use of Naloxone by drug
users
Experience gained with a model project by Fixpunkt e. V., Berlin
Germany
Prevention of emergencies and deaths due to drug abuse
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Starting situation
►majority of overdoses occur in private homes
►often other drug users are present
►they are unable to react suitably
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The general goals
to increase:
►the ability to act
►the readiness to take over responsibility when dealing with drug emergencies
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Concrete aims
►to make the reasons for drug emergencies and risk situations known and recognised
►to improve awareness of symptoms
►the use of qualified first aid measures
►to provide additional options for action by using Naloxone
►to make use of professional emergency services
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Target groups
►i.v. drug users
►drug users in substitution treatment
►occasional consumers
►new consumers
►detained consumers
►drug users who have abandoned therapy
►relatives
►professional helpers
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Places where the project is to be realised
►contact stores
►advice centres
►medical substitution practices
►stationary facilities
►detention centres
►in a mobile van on public drug scenes
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Experiences from practical work
►intensive work is necessary to motivate drug consumers to confront this subject
►repression appears to be part of the personal survival strategy
►ideal to integrate the project in structures already existing
►the trust factor makes acces to the drug users easier
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Standards of first aid courses
► how the opiates work
► what happens during an overdose
► recognising an overdose
► special risks (e.g. mixed consumptions, after refraining)
► how Naloxone works, side effects
► indication, how to use Naloxone
► what to do when a helpless person is found
► practical exersises (e.g. taking a pulse, recovery position, cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
► how to call the emergency doctor
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Details about the project from 1/12/1998 to 31/12/2002
►First aid courses: 1.615 participants (1.030 professional helpers
and relatives ; 525 drug users)
►Handing out Naloxone: 264 drug users (172 were in substitution
treatment)
►Follow-up contacts: 101 made contact, some more than once
Totally 248 follow up contacts
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Naloxone usage
►70 participants injected Naloxone
►Totally 105 cases of Naloxone usage are documented
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Benefits of using Naloxone Number
indicated
98
questionable
5
pointless
2
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Naloxone dosage
70
1
11
23
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
number of usage
0.5 ampoule (0.2 mg)
1 ampoule (0.4 mg)
1.5 ampoule (0.6 mg)
2 ampoules (0.8 mg)
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Injection method
69
3
33
subcutaneos
intramuscular
intravenous
Number of injection
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Withdrawal symptoms after Naloxone injection
72
33
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
number of persons
no yes
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Ambulance called additional to Naloxone usage
69
36
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
number of persons
no
yes
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Affected person
24
81
stranger
acquaintance
Number of persons
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Place of emergency
69
34
2
0 20 40 60 80
number
of
persons
sheltered facility
public places
home
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Evaluation
► education, handing out Naloxone to active i.v. drug users and the responsible of Naloxone is possible
► Naloxone was the motivation to take part in a first aid course
► difficult for non-professionals (not only for drug users!) to carry out resuscitation measures
► especially for i.v. drug users it is indeed practicable to inject Naloxone in emergencies
► the trust placed by Fixpunkt e.V. in the drug users ability to act responsibly, was received very positively
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Model project, what followed?
► not possible to integrate primary emergency prevention measures conceptually and structurally in Germany
► no adequat follow-up financing after the model phase
► courses and Naloxone handouts are continued casually „in the background“
► very few follow-up contacts ►Courses for professional helpers have become
established
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Data 2006 & 2007
Number
First aid courses 64
Total participants
professional helpers
drug users
547
369
178 (98 participants in the Naloxone project)
Follow-up contacts 17 (11 Naloxone usage)
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