Naloxone training for bar owners, staff reaches into Labrador
CBC
For Brian Hurley, co-owner of Iron Rock Brewery in Labrador City, training his staff on how to use naloxone is just one piece in making sure all his customers are safe inside his business.
"There's a lot of working professionals that do partake [in drug use]," Hurley said. "To have something as accessible as naloxone and be able to train our staff so that they're prepared or or have access to it, that's the approach we've taken."
He said having easily accessible naloxone in rural and remote parts of the province is especially important, given that healthcare services are often harder to access in these regions.
"Harm reduction is so much more important that you really do need to provide that access," Hurley said.
"Whether that's having test strips to be able to test something for fentanyl or any of those items, to be able to have those tools on site are real tangible ways that places can help."
As well, Hurley said a lot of drug users would be hesitant to pick up naloxone kits form healthcare facilities.
"I understand the ease and reason for that, but a lot of people do not want to approach a healthcare scenario for that," he said.
As such, it's important to have naloxone available where people will likely do drugs, like in a bar, he added.
Hurley was first introduced to the idea of having naloxone at his bar during last year's Canadian Brewery Awards.
"Myself and my co-owner, my brother, were in Halifax and we caught up with a lab in Calgary that had assisted us with some testing of hand sanitizer in aluminum cans," Hurley said.
The lab offered him his first naloxone kit and by early June this year, Hurley was working on having his staff trained.
He said the Labrador West Status Of Women Council was a big help and even just opening the conversation about naloxone with people makes a difference.
As a business owner, he said he's worried that having naloxone on site could give people the wrong impression of his business.
However, he said it's all about safety.
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