Recovering addict Kevin says life saving treatment for drug addiction became his sticking plaster.
Developing an extensive naloxone network was one of the key recommendations set out by Scotland's drug deaths taskforce in itsThe problem for people like Kevin, is that while naloxone may well save their lives, it can become a sticking plaster.
"I've since learned that that could be the reason I was overdosing all the time. Although naloxone brings you out of it, the drugs are still in your system - so as soon as you get something else, you collapse again."For Kevin and many other addicts, living through the Covid-19 pandemic while homeless was a frightening experience.
"It got to the extent where I just didn't want to be here," he said. "That's what every addict is chasing - we all think the next one will take us away."He has been sober for a year with the help of Buvidal and has now become one of the organisation's volunteers - equipped with his own naloxone kit."The Simon Community was wrap around care for me," he said.
Drugs Policy Minister Angela Constance said many of the taskforce's recommendations had already been implemented, but there were areas where the Scottish government wanted to go "far further".
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