Two advisory committees to the US Food and Drug Administration have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone (also called Narcan), be ...

While at college, an organization called End Overdose came to her campus, giving out naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses. Naloxone is best known by the brand name Narcan ...

What Are Naloxone and Naltrexone? Naloxone is a drug that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Anyone can give this very fast-acting medication, as a shot or nasal spray.

In an attempt to make naloxone more accessible amid the massive human toll of the opioid crisis, the FDA recently approved over-the-counter naloxone. Naloxone is the one solution that has remained ...

Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, is a powerful tool in the overdose crisis, allowing friends, loved ones and even bystanders a way to put a fatal overdose in reverse and bring back breathing.

Naloxone has long been hailed as a life-saving drug in the face of the opioid epidemic. But its capacity to save someone from an overdose can be limited by the potency of the opioid — a person ...

Opioids are present in around 60% of drug-induced deaths in Australia. A medicine called naloxone is available for Australians to take home in case of opioid overdose. Here’s how it works ...