A do-it-yourself guide to reviving a drug overdose victim via Maia Szalavitz of The Huffington Post. An excerpt:

Naloxone is available at many needle exchange programs — to find the nearest one, click here and ask if they have it available. If not, many doctors say they are willing to prescribe it — people at the needle exchange may help you identify such doctors if yours is not one of them. Naloxone comes in two forms: injectable and nasal spray. The injectable is probably preferable if you know someone is using because it takes effect faster; the nasal spray has the advantage of not requiring a syringe, which means that if someone is in recovery and “shaky,” you have no risk of “triggering” them by having them see or know that there are needles in the house.

After reading this blog post and reviewing the scene from that famous drug-overdose documentary, Pulp Fiction, I think I’m ready to open up a clinic of some sort.