Sentences with phrase «prevent opioid deaths»
On March 13, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city will distribute 100,000 naloxone kits citywide in attempt to prevent opioid deaths.
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Naloxone is a safe medication that can prevent death when administered during an opioid overdose.
The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.
SAMHSA has also developed an Opioid Overdose Toolkit to educate first responders in the use of naloxone to prevent overdose deaths.
These findings, which appear in Substance Abuse, come amid an opioid addiction epidemic and could offer a roadmap for how best to equip communities to prevent deaths from drug overdoses.