Sentences with phrase «carried naloxone»
Police in a number of DuPage County towns, including Burr Ridge, Lombard and Downers Grove and the DuPage County sheriff's office are already carrying naloxone, with most other county departments expected to join the county Health Department's DuPage Narcan Program soon.
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The Surgeon General has issued a public health advisory urging more Americans to carry naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.
New Yorkers are being encouraged by state officials to carry naloxone in case someone is having an opioid overdose.
Officers in all but five police departments in Erie County carry naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, a rescue nasal spray designed to revive users who overdose on opioid drugs.
While paramedics — and increasingly, police officers — carry naloxone, they often arrive too late for it to save someone's life.
«Having cops carry naloxone can be a critical effort in addressing overdose fatalities in some areas,» he said, «and represents a general shift in policing the nation's drug problem away from incarceration, which has proven expensive, ineffective, and deadly for far too many people.»
The Surgeon General recommends more Americans carry naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote.
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The Surgeon General recently urged more people to carry opioid antidote naloxone, the first advisory from a surgeon general since 2005.
The host of the show, Steve Davis, wonders aloud whether naloxone enabled addicts, by reducing the threat of fatally overdosing, and he concedes that he's sympathetic to pharmacists who don't want to carry it for fear of being blamed later.
The US surgeon general issued an advisory recommending that more Americans carry the opioid overdose - reversing drug, naloxone.
The bills would require schools to carry supplies of Naloxone, the drug used to treat heroin overdoses and in many cases, prevent death.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams is issuing a rare public health advisory on Thursday, calling for friends and family of people at risk for opioid overdoses to carry the OD - reversal medication naloxone.
«We discovered no cases brought as a result of naloxone administration by [law enforcement officers], which is perhaps not surprising because that practice is relatively new,» the researchers wrote, noting that some 220 law enforcement agencies in 24 states now carry the drug.
When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline.