Sentences with phrase «sell naloxone»

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Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray announced naloxone — which essentially reverses the effect of an overdose — will be sold in about 190 pharmacies in the city as part of an initiative to combat prescription drug and heroin addiction in the five boroughs.

This week, de Blasio announced that about 190 pharmacies around the city would sell the anti-overdose medication naloxone without a prescription.

To help curb the rising rates, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that naloxone — which essentially reverses the effect of an overdose — will be sold in pharmacies around the city.

Naloxone, sold under various trade names including Narcan, could prove to be a game changer in stemming an alarming rise in deaths from prescription opiates and heroin in the US and the UK.