VA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose Response

(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR in partnership that includes WBUR, NPR and Kaiser Health News.)

It took more than 10 minutes for paramedics to arrive after a housekeeper found a man collapsed on the floor of a bathroom in a Boston Veteran Affairs building.

The paramedics immediately administered naloxone, often known by its brand name Narcan, to successfully reverse the man’s opioid overdose. But it takes only a few minutes without oxygen for brain damage to begin. Continue reading article here…

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