In October 2015 the Baltimore City Health Department declared overdose to be a public health emergency and issued a blanket prescription for naloxone — the lifesaving drug that reverses the lethal effects of opioids — for every one of the city's residents.
Called the «overdose drug» because it counteracts the potentially lethaleffectsof heroin, oxycodone, and other abused narcotics, this lifesaving medicine is making headlines thanks to the opioid addiction epidemic.