Experts call for free nasal naloxone across B.C., as pilot project outcome uncertain

published on November 24, 2025 by Emily Fagan in CBC News

From training thousands of students how to use injectable naloxone, Chloe Goodison has seen how daunting it can be for them to administer — even just when practising.

Students express worries that their hand will shake or they’ll forget the steps, fear of needles, or that they’ll do something wrong in administering the overdose prevention drug.

“They’ll turn to us and they’ll say, ‘I don’t think I would be able to do this in an emergency,’” said Goodison, founder of NaloxHome overdose prevention training.

Even though she has trained others on it countless times over the past four years, injectable naloxone is not what she would prefer to use either.

In her bag, she carries with her a small white nasal spray — a dose easily administered through someone’s nose to reverse an overdose…