¿Cómo usar el Narcan, el aerosol para revertir sobredosis?
Esta versión de la naloxona, el fármaco que bloquea el efecto de los opiáceos en el cerebro, puede salvar vidas. Este es el modo de usarlo correctamente.
Esta versión de la naloxona, el fármaco que bloquea el efecto de los opiáceos en el cerebro, puede salvar vidas. Este es el modo de usarlo correctamente.
The nasal spray reverses opioid overdoses and public health officials hope that making it more widely available could save lives and reduce the nation’s high rates of drug fatalities.
Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray, is now approved for over-the-counter sales and should be widely available by late summer. Experts say that these sprays can swiftly reverse an opioid overdose and are easy to use. Here’s how.
The F.D.A.’s decision to allow the overdose-reversing nasal spray to be sold over the counter means it will become much more widely available.
Narcan and other naloxone nasal sprays swiftly reverse an opioid overdose and are easy to use.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to allow the overdose-reversal medication to be sold without a prescription, a step toward making it a common emergency tool.
The D.E.A. is failing at its mission.
The state awarded a $50 million contract to produce less costly treatments, but moves by major suppliers might undercut the initiative before any new product emerges.
A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals.
The company is the third of the three major insulin manufacturers that dominate the U.S. market to announce such a move this month.