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PHOTOGRAPH BY JANE BARLOW, PA IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES
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America has failed to stop the frustratingly stubborn increase in opioid deaths. Let’s move fast to get naloxone (pictured above), also known as Narcan, everywhere to help reverse fentanyl overdoses ASAP, addiction experts say.
Like, now.
“There’s no downside,” says Yale med school’s Kimberly Sue. “It’s a magical medication that literally has a Lazarus effect that can reverse the opioid effect on people’s brains and give people time to get emergency care.”
Both political parties in California back requiring public schools to keep doses on hand—and requiring managers of bars, gas stations, public libraries, and hotels with high OD rates to post a Narcan kit accessible to employees. What’s being done where you live? What’s the holdup? How many lives are at stake?
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