Shot Can Rescue Opiod Overdose Victims
For more than 40 years, there’s been a drug that can stop a heroin overdose in its tracks, if someone gives the drug in time. And it turns out that the same drug works for patients who overdose on...
View ArticleBill Proposes Expanded Access to Drug to Treat Overdoses
Naloxone is a prescription medication used to rapidly counter the effects of opioids from powerful prescription pain-killers like morphine and OxyContin to street drugs like Heroin. While the drug’s...
View ArticleCaregivers Need Power to Fight Opioid Overdose
Florida is experiencing an epidemic of opioid use and opioid overdose. When an opioid overdose occurs there are precious few seconds to save a person’s life. A caregiver or family member may find their...
View ArticleMore States Approving Heroin Antidote
At the front of a classroom, health worker Cheryll Moore demonstrates "the nod" — a jerk of the head forward and then quickly back — a telltale sign of heroin use, though not necessarily of an...
View ArticleDrug Summit Addresses Heroin Abuse, E-Cigarettes
Law enforcement officers, medical professionals and drug educators met Tuesday in Tampa as part of a three-day drug summit to discuss drug trends, policies and solutions to drug abuse.
View ArticleNaloxone Soon Available Over The Counter
A prescription drug that counters the effects of an opioid overdose will soon be available over the counter.
View ArticleCVS To Offer Non-Prescription Naloxone In Florida
Pharmacy giant CVS says it will soon make the overdose-reversing drug Naloxone available at its Florida stores without a prescription.
View ArticleFlorida's First Needle Exchange Program Will Begin Delivering "Revival Drug"...
An overdose revival drug called Naloxone, commonly referred to as its brand name Narcan, can be bought over-the-counter in 14 states, but Florida is not one of them. With the state’s overdose count...
View ArticleMiami-Dade Faces Shortage of Treatment Beds Amid Spike in Opioid Overdoses
There are lots of ways to measure the recent spike in opioid overdoses in Miami-Dade County. You can look at the number of deaths from fentanyl—a potent drug often mixed with heroin sold in the...
View ArticleFirst Responders Spending More On Overdose Reversal Drug
In Prince George's County, Md., every first responder carries naloxone, the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose. "We carry it in our first-in bags," says Bryan Spies, the county's battalion chief...
View ArticleBroward County Sheriff's Office Gets Extra Boost Of Narcan To Fight Epidemic...
Defeating one opioid overdose, one nasal spray at a time. That’s how the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) is going about the fight against the opioid epidemic. Sheriff deputies in Broward have...
View ArticlePharmacists Slow To Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug
Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic has wrought, and she is glad the anti-overdose drug naloxone is becoming more accessible.
View ArticleFHP Troopers To Get Drug To Combat Overdoses
The Florida Highway Patrol announced Wednesday it is issuing naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug commonly known by its brand name, Narcan, to state troopers.
View ArticleA Doctor's 11th-Hour Push To Convince Florida Legislators To Save Lives With...
As Florida’s legislative session winds down, the clock is running out on a bill that would expand legal needle exchange access in Broward and Palm Beach counties—and the doctor behind the proposal says...
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