OUT peer educators deliver workshops on overdose prevention and response to intravenous drug users. Workshops are held over two consecutive afternoons every month in different venues throughout Oxfordshire.

This is a partnership project with Oxfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust. During the first session OUT peer educators discuss the risks around overdose and dispel myths, and on the following afternoon a training instructor from the ambulance service delivers a practical session on basic life support techniques.

OUT peer educators deliver training on basic drugs awareness to trainee paramedics and technicians. They also deliver training on overdose prevention and response to staff working in agencies accessed by drug users.

OUT is working with Thames Valley Police to ensure that drug users are informed that police will not routinely attend overdose incidents.

Police in OxfordCity have been trained to use ambu-bags (breathing apparatus) and these are now to be found in all police cars in the city.

The OUTSMART overdose workshops are one element of Oxfordshire’s Drug Related Death Strategy which aims to reduce the number of drug related deaths in the county.

Please encourage drug users and carers to attend these workshops. Places must be booked in advance via the OUT office. Booklets on overdose prevention and response are available on request.

Further information about the National Programme to reduce Drug Related Deaths can be found on the National Treatment Agency website.

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