Indication

Naloxone for Opioid overdose

1,335 under review143 sources123 named agencies33 statesas of 2026-09-20

Adult dosing has a median of 1 mg across 142 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.4 and 2.

143sources

123named agencies

33states

460entries

120named here

1,335 rows are under review across the census and excluded from every number on this page. How that works.

Adultmg

142sources

122named agencies

32states

260entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.4	0.4	1	2	2

Values in mg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a drug five times still gets one vote.

Routes

IN 24%
IV/IO/IM/IN 10%
IM 10%
IM/IN 10%
IV 10%
IV/IO 9%
IV/IO/IM 8%
IV/IM/IN 5%
IV/IM 3%
IV/IO/IM/IN/ET 3%
IO 1%
IV/IM/SQ 1%
ET 1%
IV/IO/ET 1%
IV/IO/IN 1%
NEB 1%
SQ 1%
IM/SQ 0%
IV/IN 0%
IV/IO/IM/IN/NEB 0%
IV/IO/IM/IN/SL/ET 0%
IV/IO/IM/SQ/NEB 0%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=142 protocols from 122 named agencies / 32 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

96sources

87named agencies

26states

156entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.15

Values in mg/kg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a drug five times still gets one vote.

Routes

IN 22%
IM/IN 12%
IV/IO/IM 12%
IV/IO 10%
IV/IO/IM/IN 9%
IV 8%
IM 7%
IV/IM/IN 6%
IV/IM 5%
IV/IO/IM/IN/ET 4%
IV/IM/SQ 1%
IV/IO/ET 1%
IO 1%
IV/IN 1%
IV/IO/IM/IN/NEB 1%
IV/IO/IM/IN/SL/ET 1%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=96 protocols from 87 named agencies / 26 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatricmg

24sources

18named agencies

15states

33entries

2kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.4	0.5	1	2	2

Values in mg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a drug five times still gets one vote.

Routes

IN 42%
IV/IO/IM/IN 18%
IM 12%
IM/IN 6%
IV/IM/IN 6%
IV/IM 3%
IV/IO 3%
IV/IO/IN 3%
NEB 3%
SQ 3%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=24 protocols from 18 named agencies / 15 states, updated Sep 2026

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

7sources

6named agencies

6states

10entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1

Values in mg/kg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a drug five times still gets one vote.

Routes

IN 20%
IV/IO/IM/IN 20%
IV/IO/IM/IN/ET 20%
IM 10%
IV 10%
IV/IM/IN 10%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=7 protocols from 6 named agencies / 6 states, updated Sep 2026

PediatricmL

1sources

1named agencies

1states

1entries

2kept as written

Below 5 sources, so no distribution is published for this group — only the counts above.

Routes

IN 100%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=1 protocols from 1 named agencies / 1 states, updated Sep 2026

Named agencies

Agencies whose protocols are a public record are named here. Their own doses are on their own pages; this list carries no values.