Sentences with phrase «making naloxone»

First, they are making naloxone, a prescription medication for accidental overdoses, available as needed from pharmacies.

«A recent report from the World Health Organization showed that if by making Naloxone more accessible, we will absolutely save people's lives,» says Carlucci.

Jason Shandell, president of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc., which also makes naloxone, attended the FDA meeting.

At 1:30 p.m., Sen. David Carlucci will announce legislation to make Naloxone more readily accessible at pharmacies throughout New York.

While in the Assembly, Shelley sponsored legislation that makes naloxone, a life - saving drug that stops opioid overdoses, more easily available.

In Pennsylvania, there's been a push to make Naloxone, a drug capable of reversing an opioid overdose, available to public schools.

Adams has made addiction his top priority and wants to make naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdoses, more widely available.

Not exact matches

In August, a program was unveiled that made the lifesaving drug naloxone available at a lower cost or no cost to those with prescription health insurance.

Earlier this month, Governor Cuomo announced a series of new initiatives including the addition of 100 experienced investigators to the State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team; new efforts to make supplies of naloxone available to all first responder units in the State; and the launch of a targeted awareness campaign that will take place on all public college and university campuses.

«By providing police officers with naloxone, we are making this life - saving overdose antidote available in every town, village and hamlet on Long Island,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

They include ways to make it easier for first responders and family members of addicts to get access to the antidote drug naloxone, that can counteract a potentially fatal overdose.

Some argue having such a «safety net» could make drug users more reckless, and some efforts to pass laws to distribute naloxone more widely have stalled.

Naloxone has long been stocked in ambulances and emergency rooms in both countries, but making it available to those who often are first on the scene of an overdose — the police and the drug - taker's friends and family — is proving controversial.

In June last year he vetoed a bill that would have expanded access to naloxone in the state, justifying his stance on the grounds that the drug «would make it easier for those with substance abuse problems to push themselves to the edge, or beyond».

Naloxone treatment also appeared to make the rats more anxious, as they spent less time on an elevated apparatus that lacked walls on either side.

If he is lucky enough to make the trip to the ER, the doctors will give him an IV injection of Narcan (Naloxone), the drug of choice to reverse narcotics overdose, waking the victim and snatching him from the jaws of death.