The first over-the-counter naloxone, a drug used to reverse opioid overdose, is starting to come available in retail stores and online. The medicine, with the brand name Narcan, has a suggested retail ...

Overdose deaths are a widespread problem North Carolinians have been struggling to combat in recent years. According to the state health department, American Indian/Indigenous and Black communities ...

The proper name for a narcotic is an opioid. Naloxone and naltrexone are two of the most commonly used opioid antagonists or narcotic reversal agents. Opioid antagonists can block and even reverse the ...

Dosages of Naloxone, an opioid antagonist medication that is used to reverse an opioid overdose, are locked up and mounted next to a defibrillator at U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the Bridge ...

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School is back in session at the UQ-Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans, and on this January morning, just over 80 medical students pack into a classroom. Sedera Montgomery stands at the front, ...

LOCKPORT – A Cambria woman who was incoherent and screaming because of an overdose of hydrocodone was revived Friday morning by a state trooper using Naloxone, an intranasal injection, after an ...

STILL DYING FROM DRUG OVERDOSES EVERY MONTH, ACCORDING TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTRO AND PREVENTION. IN FLORIDA, ONE PALM BEACH COUNTY MAN HAS MADE IT HIS MISSION TO SAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS ...

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, three students stand behind a card table covered in naloxone injection kits. When a curious student leans in and asks what the kits are for, ...

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