CalRx is about making essential drugs like naloxone affordable and accessible for all — not the privileged few,” Newsom said. Naloxone is an easy-to-use nasal spray that reverses drug overdoses.

In 2016, prison medical staff began carrying naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses and is often sold under the Narcan brand. Seven years later, it was made centrally available ...

The nasal spray is now available on the CalRx website. The generic drug naloxone can reverse overdose by blocking the effects of opioids. This generic version now available is about half the ...

As overdose deaths in Minnesota decline, Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota install free emergency naloxone. Overdose deaths dropped by about 24% in the U.S. in 2024, a decline nearly ...