If you or someone you know takes opioid-based pain medications or has a history with heroin abuse, a naloxone kit in the home can save their life. In many cases, the overdose is an accident: A child ...
Take-home naloxone kits across Canada should contain both versions of the opioid overdose-reversing drug — a nasal spray and an injectable that goes into a muscle — says a panel of experts that ...
Take-home naloxone kits for treating opioid overdoses should, where possible, offer intramuscular and intranasal formulations of the lifesaving drug, according to a new guidance. The document also ...
Workplaces in California could eventually be required to stock their first aid kits with naloxone or another medication that can stop an opioid overdose under a bill signed this week by Gov. Gavin ...
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, ...
At least two local departments of health are offering free Naloxone (Narcan) nasal spray kits. In an email news release, the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County says, “[i]ncreasing access ...
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A needle in the leg or a shot up the nostril can be the difference between life or death during an opioid overdose. The drug naloxone temporarily reverses the effects of opioids, and is available as a ...
Amanda Walker moved to Saskatoon a year ago. Already, she has twice used take-home naloxone kits to stop overdoses in her apartment building. “I had just come home from shopping, and I was just about ...