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A Canadian study finds that as fentanyl use began increasing in 2014, opioid agonist treatment duration with methadone or ...
A family in Sonoma County has found an innovative way to offer Narcan for free, using repurposed newspaper boxes to distribute the life-saving drug. Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is used to reverse ...
The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the naloxone distribution program would gut programs that train and equip ...
Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of ...
Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution ...
Two advisory committees to the FDA have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone, be made available over the counter. CNN Medical Analyst ...
Naloxone is an “opioid antagonist,” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which means it blocks chemicals in the opioid family (such as heroin, oxycodone, morphine and fentanyl ...
Naloxone can stop an opioid overdose in its tracks. The opioid crisis has been front and center this week thanks to President Donald Trump's visit to New Hampshire, a state that has been ...
Naloxone is a drug that can reverse the effects of opioids, such as heroin, methadone, opium, codeine, morphine and buprenorphine. Picture date: Thursday February 17, 2022.
Naloxone, which was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1971, works by blocking opioids from acting on receptors in the brain and reverses the depressed breathing caused by ...
Just two police forces in the country refuse to give their officers naloxone. Big Issue reporting has sparked politicians to ...