Sentences with phrase «overdose antidote»

The Surgeon General recommends more Americans carry naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote.

The report calls for expanding access to the overdose antidote naloxone to laypeople, and also says jurisdictions should explicitly authorize syringe exchange as well as their sale or distribution.

One way to reduce the nation's number of opioid - related deaths, said Northeastern University drug policy expert Leo Beletsky, is through the timely administration of naloxone, the life - saving overdose antidote.

«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.

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is urging the maker of a heroin overdose antidote to stop what he says is a 62 percent spike in cost of the drug that has saved scores of lives since it was first distributed to addicts and first responders.

Deaths due to opioid overdose are in decline in the United States according to recent medical surveys with the overdose antidote naloxone (Narcan) credited as a main cause of this positive trend.

Last week, the Governor and legislative leaders reached an agreement on multiple bills that include new programs and insurance reforms to improve treatment options for individuals suffering from heroin and opioid addiction; measures to strengthen penalties and put in place additional tools for law enforcement to crack down on the distribution of illegal drugs; provisions to ensure the proper and safe use of naloxone, an overdose antidote; and support for enhanced public awareness campaigns to prevent drug abuse.

Some critics have questioned whether making the overdose antidote more available could provide a safety net that would encourage riskier drug use.

Police hope the decline in deaths continues but McCarthy said naloxone — the overdose antidote, also known as Narcan — is «a logical extension» of the department's drug prevention and enforcement programs.

Anecdotal reports suggest that some illegal fentanyl is so strong — as much as 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine — that currently available dosages of the overdose antidote naloxone aren't able to revive some victims.

Amphastar became yet another drug price - hiking villain facing intense public scrutiny when it raised the price of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, by more than 100 %.

FDA rejects Amphastar's intranasal opioid overdose antidote.

The White House report on the epidemic says that 142 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, and urges measures like federal legislation that would boost widespread adoption of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.

For instance, it encourages «model» federal legislation that would prop up the widespread and automatic adoption of «naloxone,» an opioid overdose antidote that an increasing number of police forces have adopted.

Mr. Cuomo has sought to increase access to emergency overdose antidotes and has passed laws to crack down on «doctor shopping» for painkiller prescriptions, often a gateway to heroin use.

(R.I.) As rates of heroin use among young people increase, states are moving to equip schools with overdose antidotes, something drug safety advocates say will help save lives.

Not exact matches

Worryingly, people who overdose on such designer drugs, known collectively as China White, have been said to be less responsive to antidotes now widely carried by first responders.

Police all across New York state will be supplied with the drug widely seen as an antidote to heroin and painkiller overdoses.

Establishment of the Dutchess County Opioid Overdose Prevention Program, personally training more than 500 law enforcement personnel and 200 community members in the use of the opioid antidote Narcan;

Cahill said Schneiderman's new program to provide law enforcement agencies with an antidote to treat heroin overdoses at the scene is fine, but does not do enough to address the overall problem of heroin addiction.

The antidote used to counteract the effects of a heroin overdose is hard to obtain in New York City, a review by The Times found.

The NYPD has saved another 112 people from overdosing using the antidote naloxone.

Residents who participate learn how to administer Narcan, a lifesaving antidote used to revive heroin and prescription painkiller overdose victims and are given a free Narcan kit.

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.

At more than 90 such locations in Europe and elsewhere, if someone overdoses at one of these sites, a health worker or other first responder quickly administers an antidote.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

The findings suggest that giving patients glutamine — a common amino acid in the body — alongside the standard antidote for acetaminophen overdose could prevent liver damage and boost the body's ability to recover.

The standard antidote for acetaminophen overdose is a drug called N - acetylcysteine, or NAC, which helps restore glutathione levels to normal by adding the glutathione precursor that is usually in shortest supply.

«NAC has been the standard antidote for acetaminophen overdose for decades, and we are excited at the chance of improving it,» the authors said.

Death from opioid overdose is preventable through timely administration of the antidote naloxone.

Co-author Professor John Strang, Head of the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, said: «This study is the first to assess the international evidence - base on take - home naloxone, and we found that the antidote successfully reversed overdose in the large majority of cases where the drug was administered.

The death toll would be even higher, were it not for emergency responders» heavy reliance on naloxone as an antidote that rapidly reverses the effects of overdose.

Then, Abrams announced that the entire panel was invited to a free Star Wars concert, with a cadre of stormtroopers arriving to escort fans to the event, hopefully with medics on hand to administer antidotes to anyone overdosing on all the pure, uncut nostalgia suddenly floating around.

There is no antidote to caffeine overdose, but your veterinarian will probably induce vomiting, and they may administer activated charcoal to help prevent further absorption.