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Topic: Naloxone

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We can't bomb our way to fewer overdoses

Kassandra Frederique, James Saenz
Fentanyl test strip with bottle of life saving Naloxone. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Trump will make overdoses soar again

Charles LeBaron
The contents of a Narcan first aid kit are shown. (Michelle Mengsu Chang/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

A gentler drug overdose reversal

Claire Zagorski
A medical student displays a pouch of Narcan, which is used to revive an overdose, at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 07, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Harm reduction is about ending stigma

Sheila P. Vakharia
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Marijuana buds (Getty Images/Yuri Kriventsoff)

How to reverse a cannabis overdose

Troy Farah
A box of Narcan nasal spray (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation

Troy Farah
Medics with the Cincinnati Fire Department work to keep a possible overdose victim awake after administering Naloxone while responding to a report at a gas station (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Why naloxone should be everywhere

Nancy D. Campbell
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FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, file photograph, a small bottle of the opiate overdose treatment drug, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, is displayed at the South Jersey AIDS Alliance in Atlantic City, N.J. It is becoming easier for friends and family of heroin users or patients abusing strong prescription painkillers to get access to naloxone, a powerful, life-saving antidote, as state lawmakers loosen restrictions on the medicine to fight a growing epidemic. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (AP)

More states want overdose reversal drug

Barbara Feder Ostrov - KFF Health News
FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, file photograph, a small bottle of the opiate overdose treatment drug, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, is displayed at the South Jersey AIDS Alliance in Atlantic City, N.J. It is becoming easier for friends and family of heroin users or patients abusing strong prescription painkillers to get access to naloxone, a powerful, life-saving antidote, as state lawmakers loosen restrictions on the medicine to fight a growing epidemic. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (AP)

Why won't pharmacists dispense naloxone?

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
Black tar heroin (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Big Pharma isn't helping

Robin Feldman - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

here's how to reduce opioids

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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Losing my son to drugs

Diannee Carden Glenn
(AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

LePage to nix lifesaving drugs

Elias Isquith
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