Marking International Overdose Awareness Day 2025
31 Aug 2025
International Overdose Awareness Day, held on 31 August each year, remembers the lives lost to overdose and encourages people to take action to prevent it.
In Australia, every day there are nearly 150 hospitalisations, 14 emergency department visits, and three deaths due to opioid use.*
To help save lives, the Mental Health Commission has developed an online training program called “Opioid Overdose and the Use of Naloxone”. The training teaches people how to recognise an opioid overdose and respond using naloxone, a medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an overdose and allow the person to breathe normally again.
Naloxone works within 2–5 minutes, lasts up to 90 minutes, and cannot be misused.
(Source: Mental Health Commission)
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