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Naloxone can save lives but stigma is preventing its use among newly abstinent opioid users – News-Medical.Net
Opioids are the main driver of fatal drug overdoses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resulting in 46,802 deaths…
Opioids are the main driver of fatal drug overdoses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resulting in 46,802 deaths in 2018, usually because the person stops breathing.
Naloxone — a Food and Drug Administration-approved medication used to reverse overdoses from opioids, such as heroin, morphine, and oxycodone — works by restoring normal respiration to a person whose breathing has slowed or stopped.
Opioid overdoses cause the largest number of accidental…
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