Support in your language
In other languages.
We don’t translate emergency instructions ourselves. Getting “roll them onto their side” slightly wrong in a language we can’t read is the kind of mistake that kills someone, so these are made and checked by people who can.
Naloxone instructions
From CA Bridge, a California Department of Health Care Services programme. These four are Santa Clara County’s threshold languages, meaning the county is required to provide services in them.
- EspañolSpanishHow to use naloxone to reverse an overdose · CA Bridge (PDF)
- Tiếng ViệtVietnameseHow to use naloxone to reverse an overdose · CA Bridge (PDF)
- 繁體中文Chinese (Traditional)How to use naloxone to reverse an overdose · CA Bridge (PDF)
- TagalogTagalogHow to use naloxone to reverse an overdose · CA Bridge (PDF)
Twelve more languages
The National Library of Medicine publishes giving naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose in:
العربية (Arabic) · 简体中文 (Chinese, Simplified) · 繁體中文 (Chinese, Traditional) · Français (French) · हिन्दी (Hindi) · 日本語 (Japanese) · 한국어 (Korean) · नेपाली (Nepali) · Русский (Russian) · Soomaali (Somali) · Español (Spanish) · Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Open MedlinePlusMedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine
On the phone
988 has Spanish-language counselors and interpretation in other languages. Poison Control uses interpreters too. You can say the language you need at the start of the call.
Our own Spanish page
We have a Spanish version of the emergency steps. It’s a translation we did and it has not been reviewed by a native speaker or a clinician, so the CA Bridge document above is the better source if you only open one.
Ver la página en españolVietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog and Hindi versions of our own pages are not written yet, and won’t be until a native speaker can check them. Linking to reviewed material is better than shipping our own unreviewed translation, which is a mistake we already made once in Spanish.