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Naloxone Kits
Wake County Health & Human Services
FREE Naloxone kits available while supplies last.
Pharmacy: 10 Sunnybrook Road, Raleigh, NC.
Pharmacy hours are currently as follows:
- Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed for lunch 12:30–1:30 p.m.
North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC)
FREE Naloxone kits available
4024 Barrett Drive, Suite 101, Raleigh 27603
Tuesdays and Thursdays: noon–4 p.m.
919-523-4303 – call or text for mobile and peer exchange
Free overdose rescue kits are prioritized for people who use drugs and their families. While NCHRC would like to distribute free overdose rescue kits to everyone, the realities of a limited budget require NCHRC to prioritize people with a high risk for overdose. (If NCHRC is low on supplies, they will prioritize active injection drug users.)
Naloxone Information and Resources
Law Enforcement Naloxone Toolkit
Contains resources from the Bureau of Justice Assistance that support law enforcement agencies in establishing a naloxone program
Naloxone Saves NC
Provides information to the public and pharmacies about naloxone and North Carolina's statewide standing order for naloxone.
Make the Call NC
Explains the Good Samaritan Law/Naloxone Access law in North Carolina.
North Carolina Good Samaritan/Naloxone Access Law
Describes how North Carolina law protects people who ask the police, 911 or EMS for help because they or someone else is having a drug overdose.
North Carolina Harm Reduction's Community Based Overdose Prevention Project
Describes distribution of naloxone to prevent drug overdose, groups at risk who can get naloxone overdose prevention kits at no charge, North Carolina's 911 Good Samaritan/Naloxone access law related to drug overdose and pharmacies in North Carolina that sell naloxone. Also provides overdose prevention information and resources.
Syringe Exchange
North Carolina Harm Reduction: What is Syringe Exchange?
Describes what syringe exchange is, how it prevents the spread of HIV, hepatitis C and other diseases spread through blood and how it connects people to treatment and services. Also provides a list of legal syringe exchange sites in North Carolina.
North Carolina Safer Syringe Initiative
Provides information about syringe exchanges and NC law as well as resources for health care providers, law enforcement and testing and treatment programs.