Safer with naloxone: “you never know when you can run into someone that is overdosing”
While interviewers did not directly query about perceived safety, several participants (n = 10) independently volunteered that despite potential consequences, they felt safer with naloxone than they did without it. No participants described feeling You can't ever tell in wherever you're at, what kind of situations going on, anything can happen in the spur of a moment. And I know as long as I've got [Narcan] on me, if something like that ever happens around me, it could save somebody's life.– Female, County 7The local rural 