Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Naloxone.

In June 2022, The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) published a report reviewing naloxone implementation in the United Kingdom, including the effectiveness of naloxone. The ACMD is the Government’s independent expert advisory body on drug-related issues and its report highlighted the importance of naloxone, providing evidence showing an association between administration of naloxone and a reduction of opioid overdose-related deaths.

The Government considers naloxone to be effective in reducing opioid overdose-related deaths and is working to widen access to, and increase the uptake of, this life saving drug.