Naloxone Medication: A Safe and Effective Treatment for Opioid Overdose

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Introduction
Naloxone is a narcoticanalgesic antagonist, C19H21NO4, used in thereversal of
acutenarcoticanalgesicrespiratorydepression. The medicine brings better results when
administered at an overdose to block the high concentration of heroin or opioids in the body of a
patient. The medication is most effective when administered through injections since it will
prevent the usagewhen administered orally as a tablet is not that effective until it is crushed for
injection. The intended result of reversal having the naloxone process is high; the take home
naloxone is useful as it reduces the opioid and the heroin overdose in people who are infected.
To minimize the deaths that may occur due to the wrong usage or any other thing that may cause
death it needs to be handled through giving training to the patients and also to people taking care
of them. Knowledge about the medicine is very critical to avoid misuse. The patients should
have a role of following the given prescriptions since lack of instructions follow up from a doctor
to a patient it may lead to dangerous conditions or even death.
Mechanisms of naloxone in reversing an overdose
Naloxone is a medicine mainly used to block the consequences of opiates when overdose, this
induces the respiratory diseases that can lead to other problems or even death(Wheeler, Jones,
Gilbert, & Davidson, 2015). Argues that opiates prevention systems of giving naloxone to
persons in the US.
Intended results of reversal about the dose processarehigh; the take-home naloxone is useful as
it reduces the opioid overdose in people that may be infected in them. Naloxone is a safe
treatment or dose that is believed not to have any harm when given in representative doses to
opiates overdosedpatients it is also not involving selection and better than others in the same

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category opioid receptor antagonists; this works by reversing diseases for the complex of the
nerve tissue which have control of all the body activities and breathing caused by opioids. (Faul
et al.,2015).Argues about the great difference in the dose process, this will be achieved
throughthe urgent medical experts and the loadto protect the safety and improving the health of
the communities.
In hospitals the medication is applying in low doses which is later continuously measured and
adjusted, the balance of drug dosage to make the best change couse of action of opioid-induced
breathing issues for a period of time trying to make the danger of removal low that may include
restlessness, nausea and also a rapid heartbeats, to avoid all this little doses every few sixty
seconds until the desired condition is attained.( Strang et al., 2016).Highlights that naloxone that
is given without using the injection results of candidate routes for failure of injecting naloxone
for opiates change of drug and liquor addiction.
In history,Narcan is a better as compared to other mu-opioid blockers used only by
health trainedindividuals in hospitals. Formulations having the purpose of many other routes of
administration are currently under development. The medicine is not in most cases given orally
due to coveringfirst-bass chemical reaction in the liver that provides much of not involving in
physical activities, in spite of the fact that the ability to produce needed results has been
reportedto be between a dose of one thousand – three thousandmilligram and the period of the
thing done issaid to be between six- twenty fourhours. At great level doses of twomilligram or
kilogram, patients only experience related to behavior conditions related to the disease such as
losing balance, sweating, nausea, without much demanding side effects. Sufficiently
greatchanges in blood pressure when the heart itself is contracting and breathing frequency in the

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absence of a considerable shift in connection were solely seen in good health participants when
specified with naloxone at amount of two–four milligram or kilogram. Scientists discovered that
several victims who encountered with possible naloxone signs, there no existing connection to
treatment offered to them. On the condition being protected and success of naloxone is when
given by health providers. Naloxone possess some familiar undesired outcomes which do not
have capability purpose to misuse, and is able to be obtained at an understandable average cost,
in spite of the fact that there has been recent be about over cost increases. Health
professionalshavebegunto perform a procedure in the laboratory with new skills to give naloxone
at a fast speed and safely under not related to hospital work order which gave the dose in low
quantities to the patients.(Davis & Carr, 2015).Argues about the increaseof naloxone overdose
reversal and also the drug and alcohol independence.
The effectiveness of the take-home medication
The take homenaloxonemedicine is more usefulsince it when given the small doses in the
hospital the other ones can be done at home and eliminate the type if problems that may
be raised by opioids, for example, the depression for the nervous and also the respiratory
system like the pulmonary edema. It reduces the number of people that may be infected
in the opioids. (Giglio, Li & DiMaggio, 2015).Argues about the success of a person who
is present but do not take part naloxone process and overdose education performance.
The intended result of change about the naloxone success beyond people be great, possessbe
observered at seventy five– one hundred % having that to be a high percentage and to
conclusion about the efficacy of the take-home naloxone performances are looked
attentively to be very useful for reducing opioid-overdose mortality in patients.(McAuley,