naloxone

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Examples

• There are several other approaches available, like providing the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, supervised consumption sites, and giving heroin to treatment-resistant patients.

• Users were more isolated, leading to additional overdoses because other people were not nearby to summon first responders or administer the opioid antidote naloxone, experts said.

• They also hand out naloxone, the drug known by its brand name Narcan that is used to treat overdoses and prevent fatalities.

• On Friday morning, county Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten is set to sign an order allowing lifesaving overdose reversal drug naloxone to be distributed throughout the county without prescriptions.

• Luke Bergmann, the county’s behavioral health services director, said the county is moving forward with an order from Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten that will allow it to broadly distribute lifesaving naloxone throughout the region.

• The second is naloxone, the antagonist, meaning that it stops the action of other opiates, like heroin.

• This can include making anti-addiction drug buprenorphine available to them, as well as anti-overdose medication naloxone.

• In other circumstances, naloxone (also known as Narcan) might work.

• Other laws have been put in place to allow for prescription of a take-home “antidote” called naloxone to known users.

• One such drug is naloxone, which can be used to reverse any type of opiate overdose (heroin is an opiate).