Care within reach
Free naloxone, and whether it’s reachable right now.
Naloxone reverses an opioid overdose. It’s free, you don’t need ID or a prescription, and nobody at these places will ask you why you want it.
Pickup locations in Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties. Choose your area below. You decide whether to load a map or use your location.
Find free naloxone using our local directory. Choose your county to see local options.
Outside our two counties? Find another naloxone program ↗. External sites have their own privacy practices.
What you’re looking for
Five ways to get some
You do not need a prescription and you do not need to be 18. The nasal spray went over the counter, which means it is stock on a shelf rather than something a pharmacist has to decide to give you.
Anyone. Nobody to ask.
Santa Clara County keeps stocked boxes in lobbies, on walls and in a few vending machines. You take it. There is no form, no ID, and no conversation with anyone.
Any age. No prescription.
Naloxone nasal spray is sold over the counter now, so it sits out on the shelf like cough syrup. You do not need a prescription, you do not need ID, and you do not have to ask a pharmacist for it. If a store keeps it behind the counter you can still just ask for it, and they cannot refuse you for being under 18.
Individuals in California.
An online form and they mail naloxone and fentanyl test strips to you. This is the only free route that goes to a person rather than to an organization, and it is the one to use if walking into a pharmacy is the part you can't do.
nextdistro.org/cadistro ›Anyone.
California makes and sells its own naloxone nasal spray at close to cost. Cheaper than the branded one and exactly the same medicine.
calrx.ca.gov ›Organizations only — including schools.
The Naloxone Distribution Project does not send to individuals, so it is no use to you directly. It is very much use to a teacher, a club advisor or a school nurse, and schools and districts are eligible. If you want it in your school, this is the thing to send them.
dhcs.ca.gov ›We checked the over-the-counter claim rather than repeating it. A query to the FDA’s own drug directory on 2026-09-10 returns 21 over-the-counter naloxone nasal spray listings, including NARCAN, RiVive, CVS Health and Walgreens store brands.
Expired naloxone still works. Use it.
Naloxone loses potency very slowly. An expired one is not an inert one, and the medical toxicology position is that using expired naloxone beats not using naloxone, every time.
It does nothing at all to someone who is not overdosing, so there is no version of this where giving it makes anything worse.
If it has been somewhere very hot or very cold, like a car through a summer, replace it when you can. Use it anyway in the meantime.
Don’t let it expire
Naloxone has an expiry date and nobody notices until the day they need it. Put the date in and take a reminder with you.
Reminds you a week before. Built in your browser and saved to your calendar. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Vending machines
Free naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and other supplies, without talking to anyone.
Mobile vans
Naloxone, sterile supplies, and testing, brought to these stops. Schedules move, so call before you go.
- Little Orchard, San Jose
- Second Street under the 280 overpass, San Jose
- Senter Road, San Jose
- Valley Health Center, Gilroy
People, not boxes
- Post-Overdose Support Team(669) 326-4406
Support for someone who has survived an overdose. Surviving one is the highest-risk moment for the next one, and this is the team for exactly that.
- Medication Assisted Treatment(408) 655-6196
Low-barrier treatment for opioids, stimulants, or alcohol. Low-barrier means they are not trying to make it hard.
- Harm Reduction Center(408) 792-5529
Naloxone, sterile syringes, fentanyl test strips, HIV and STI testing. All free.
- County sharps disposal hotline(408) 299-7300
Free drop-off locations for used needles. Call for the site nearest you.
Locations come from the County of Santa Clara’s public overdose prevention resource hub. The county numbers its boxes into the nineties but publishes about twenty, so this is a subset of what exists. Where the county didn’t publish hours, we say so rather than guess. If you find a box that’s empty, gone, or not where this page says, tell us and we’ll fix it and pass it to the county.