Right, so we're just dropping off some of the shelving and stuff because we've had a bright idea that my dad can spray it, our colour, or paint it for us.
So we're dropping off some of the stuff that we've just had from Modern Man in Barber as a shelve.
We've had some nice shelving.
I wanted more but we just we haven't got a shop now to put it in.
And then we've gone down and we've had our drug and alcohol training with GDAS in Caerphilly.
So our shops will now carry Naloxone, which is a rescue med for anybody who's overdosed drug and alcohol.
And the staff will be able to administer these.
We're going to have two injections per shop.
I can show you how to use them, but if you want extra training of the drug and alcohol service, you can pop down to Caerphilly as well.
We can sort that out, so our volunteers.
If somebody comes in and they're like, I need somebody, my maid in a flat is not good, just give them a box, okay?
Because this can save lives.
This blocks drugs, alcohol, opioids for up to 20 minutes and it can save lives.
And then all you do is you give that to the ambulance people when.
But just be aware that if you've given this to somebody, they're going to be in withdrawal when they wake up.
So they might not be very pleasant when they wake up.
And the other thing we've got is the nasal sprays as well.
So even if they're unconscious, this is a bit like like an Epi pen.
You would just give it to them through their clothes, right?
You would just administer this.
It's a nasal spray.
You just push it like that and it goes up and there's two administrations in that.
You do two milligrams and then you wait five to ten minutes.
And if there's no response, you do another two milligrams.
Don't panic.
We'll do training, right?
You've got leaflets, but it only works for 20 minutes.
So you need to try and persuade the patient to stay there for 20 minutes for the ambulance to You tell the ambulance you are a naloxone venue.
You carry naloxone and you've administered it, okay?
You don't need permission to do it.
You can ask them permission to do it if you think they're conscious, but don't forget if they're not coherent or they're under the influence, they could say no.
I mean if they say no, then I mean I would still do it because you're saving someone's life, okay?
And that person hasn't got that capacity at that time, but you do what you feel is right, okay?
They might come in and ask for it themselves because they know they're ODing, you know?
But the thing you've got to remember is, guys, right?
Nobody wakes up an alcoholic.
Nobody wakes up a drug addict, okay?
They have gone through some trauma and nine times out of ten it's not just one trauma.
In their lives, it's my mother overdosed on her ZAP pain and she was taking other painkillers because at the time her lungs were filling with fluid and she'd overdosed and they had to give her this in the hospital, but she'd taken everything the doctor told her to take with her meds,
but they should have worked out her medication and her opioids specifically to her weight and height.
Now, if you've seen my mother, she is shorter than a bit, right?
So, really, she shouldn't have been prescribed eight ZAP pains plus other pain meds a day because they should be working it out to your BMI, not just giving you eight tablets a day, right?
So, my mother should be on four.
You'll have to pull up on me and give me a chance to take it all in use.
Oh, you haven't got it out yet, have you?
I haven't.
Alright, okay.
So, yes.
So, yes, they should be working out your tablets to your BMI because when I went to the hospital, they were like, what frame of mind was your mother in?
I said, I know what frame of mind she was in because I wheeled her into the doctors in the morning.
She was shouting at me.
They said, no, do you think she would have taken an overdose to end her life?
And I was like, no.
And they were like, well, she's overdosed.
And I was like, yeah, I think you've got the wrong patient.
You know, I was like, no, that's that's not my mother.
And they were like, no, she has.
And we were like, no, I said, just stab her with it.
I said, just stab her with a naloxone.
If you think it's that, stab her.
And they did.
And she woke up and she was screaming her head up.
Get my daughter in here now, you're abusing me.
To the nurses.
When we were in the corridor and I was like, yeah, she's taken an overdose.
But she hadn't taken an overdose.
We found out that they prescribed her the full maximum amount of two lots of painkillers a day, but hadn't worked it out to her BMI.
So, you know, just remember the people that have taken an overdose, don't stereotype them.
OK.
And by giving them this, you will be saving their lives.
But if somebody runs in and says, I need one of the injections straight away, so and so in a flat, just give them a box.
OK, they don't cost us anything.
Let me know as soon as you've got a situation like this going off in your shops.
Because then I can ring an ambulance.
I can make sure everything's dealt with.
And I can ring G DAS, the Gwent and Alcohol and Drug Service, to tell them what's gone on.
And we, if possible, try and get the person's details so we can let them have details.
But it could happen all very quickly and you might not get any details.
But there we are.
OK, so these are good as well.
So every shop will have these now.
And yeah, there we are.
You know us.
You never go to anything on me.
We'll have the posters up in the shop and I'll also have a sign for the door saying that we carry naloxone as well.
So thank you very much for that support, G DAS.
