Emerging Health IssuesPart D/Prescription Drugs

Not just for medics: Drugs that reverse opioid overdoses are being pushed to the masses

(By Andrew Joseph for STAT)

BALTIMORE — After two decades of sending a needle exchange van around this city, officials here last year started doing something new. They wouldn’t just hand out clean syringes; they would distribute the antidote to the opioid overdoses ravaging local communities. Continue reading article here……

 

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