Sentences with phrase «reversing opioid overdose»

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

The guideline also addresses the rapid - acting opioid blocker naloxone, which plays a critical role in reversing opioid overdose.

Adapt, which is based in Dublin, but operates out of Radnor, Pennsylvania, is one of a handful of companies that in recent years have introduced products delivering naloxone, a decades - old drug that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, in Narcan spray.

Out of the blue, the small distributor of a nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses got a major endorsement from the U.S. president.

The state Health Department will soon help offset the cost for individuals looking to buy medication that reverses opioid overdoses.

The Surgeon General has issued a public health advisory urging more Americans to carry naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.

It's one of many efforts including Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan for state assistance for medication that reverses opioid overdoses Monday.

The city's new public safety ads promote the use of naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses

ALBANY — The state Health Department will soon help offset the cost for individuals looking to buy medication that reverses opioid overdoses, Gov. Cuomo announced Monday.

Organizers say the sessions will last approximately one hour and will teach participants how to recognize, respond to and reverse an opioid overdose using naloxone, also known as narcan.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

More data are needed to understand how reliably nasal naloxone reverses opioid overdose in the community.

A recent wave of overdoses in states including Ohio and Kentucky has taught law enforcement officers and first responders that the medication used to reverse opioid overdoses — a powerful chemical called Narcan, or naxolone — often fails to rouse patients who have taken too much carfentanil.

Here's everything you need to know about the lifesaving drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.

Tell the operator that this is a suspected overdose, so the emergency crew can bring naloxone (a medication that can temporarily stop or reverse an opioid overdose).

A controversial, unpublished study is suggesting that naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, doesn't save more lives and drives people to seek more dangerous highs.

Not exact matches

For decades, naloxone, a drug approved in 1971 that instantly reverses the effect of opioid overdose, languished in relative obscurity.

The US surgeon general issued an advisory recommending that more Americans carry the opioid overdose - reversing drug, naloxone.

-- $ 2 million in the budget to distribute and expand the availability of naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose

More providers will be trained and authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid analgesics use, and pharmacies across the city will offer naloxone, which can reverse the effects of opioid overdose, without a prescription.

The city is also increasing access to Naloxone, a medication that can reverse overdoses from opioid analgesics and heroin.

Naloxone or Narcan, which quickly reverses the effects of opioid overdose, has become more readily available in Tompkins County.

The number of Erie County residents dying from opioid drug overdoses fell last year, reversing a lethal body count trend for the first time since 2013.

Community members were given free Naloxone kits, as well as instructions on how to properly administer the life - saving drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdose.

Naloxone (brand name: Narcan ®) is a lifesaving medication that can save lives by reversing the effect of overdoses caused by heroin or other opioids, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone prescription drugs.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

Naloxone hydrochloride is a medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

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.

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