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NALtrain (Bundesmodellprojekt Take-Home-Naloxon)

Also: NALtrain · Naloxon rettet Leben

“Naloxon rettet Leben.”

German federal model project (July 2021 - June 2024) funded by the Federal Ministry of Health to spread take-home naloxone: harm reduction and AIDS service staff were trained as trainers, then trained people who use opioids in overdose first aid and helped them get naloxone prescribed through local doctors.

Years
2021–2024
Country
Germany
Budget
BMG funding of EUR 299,623.75 (per search summary of the BMG final report; not confirmed on an opened page).
Topic
Harm reductionOpioids
Asks people to
RecognizeStart
Strategy
Gatekeeper trainingSelf efficacy
Channel
Clinical settingEvents
Audience
AdultsClinicians
Staff of drug and AIDS help services, and people who use opioids or are in opioid substitution treatment.

Evidence

ProcessMixed

864 staff from about 373 organizations attended 74 train-the-trainer courses; 123 organizations ran 784 trainings reaching 2,333 people who use opioids, 1,451 of whom received naloxone. The 800-staff goal was met; the 400-organization and 10,000-client goals were missed, uptake concentrated in Bavaria, and prescription-only status was the main barrier (Fleißner 2025).

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG) Foreign government, funder
  • Deutsche Aidshilfe NGO, partner
  • akzept e.V. NGO, partner
  • Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Addiction Research (Prof. Heino Stöver) Academic, project lead

Credits (who made it)

  • Heino Stöver Individual, 2021-2024 source

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. Bundesmodellprojekt NALtrain (BMG Ressortforschung) sponsor
  2. Fleißner S et al. The implementation of take-home naloxone: Lessons learned from a 3-year take-home naloxone project in Germany. Harm Reduct J 2025;22:120 evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1186/s12954-025-01281-1 · PMID 40682037

Research notes

Discovered 2026-10-22 for #17. Credits checked 2026-10-22 against fetched pages: Heino Stöver (BMG project page, Projektleitung); Deutsche Aidshilfe (Dirk Schäffer) and akzept e.V. named as Projektbeteiligte. Unverified (no page opened that credits it): Centre for Drug Research, Goethe University Frankfurt as external evaluator (search summary of the BMG final report PDF, Abschlussbericht_NALtrain_bf.pdf). A training and supply project, not a mass media campaign; Germany's main public overdose-awareness moment is the national memorial day for people who died using drugs (21 July, since 1998), not filed. Site status 2026-10-22: dead (naltrain.org no longer resolves; its 2021-2022 Wayback captures are only redirects to a hosting placeholder, so no archived copy of project content).

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