Doctors and first responders say making the opioid reversal drug Narcan available over the counter could help lower the number of people dying from overdoses.
Doctors and first responders say making this opioid reversal drug more available could help lower the number of people dying from overdoses.the Narcan nasal spray for over-the-counter sales. Doctors and first responders say making this opioid reversal drug more available could help lower the number of people dying from overdoses.
She wonders if they had been able to get Narcan over the counter if he would still be alive today. But he was alone at the time of the overdose and the CDC says you cannot administer it yourself. Brian O’Hara says they’ve responded to more than 600 overdose calls this year. In 2021, 2,073 calls were made to police about overdoses and in 2022, over 2,700 calls were made.
O’Hara comes from the city of Newark, New Jersey, where he served as deputy chief of police, director of public safety and briefly as deputy mayor. He said the difference between people buying drugs in the northeast is that many are buying drugs laced with fentanyl, but in Minneapolis people are buying fentanyl directly. "I have been on calls myself in the city.
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