Naloxone, an overdose-reversing ‘miracle drug’, can let people with an opioid addiction walk away from a near-death experience within minutes
Kenneth Mattingly’s daughter was twice brought to the brink of death by heroin and twice pulled back by paramedics carrying an antidote, naloxone. Then Mattingly responded to an opioid overdose call early last year at which a woman saved a friend’s life because she was carrying a naloxone spray, often known by its brand name Narcan.
Watching the news one evening, the police chief was struck by a report about a hospital in Indiana installing a vending machine to dispense naloxone for free and with no questions asked. “I told people, take two or three boxes. Put it in your home, keep it in your car, keep it in your bathroom, keep it wherever you think you might need it.”
The food and drug administration and Biden government have sought to make it easier to obtain naloxone without a prescription by declaring a public health emergency, and states have passed their own access laws. But Costello said that is not without its issues.
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