STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Purdue Pharma L.P. (“Purdue”) today announced The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology has published findings from a study in healthy adult volunteers that ...

Naloxone nasal sprays are now routinely distributed to the public thanks to a standing order by Pennsylvania’s state health department, which circumvents the need for a prescription to obtain ...

A fisherman experiencing an overdose at sea was saved due to nearby fishing vessels carrying Narcan. The death of another fisherman from an overdose prompted the Atlantic Shellfish fleet to equip ...

The group, which has chapters in 12 states, provides nasal and injectable forms of naloxone to more than 90% of Colorado’s hospitals, to give to patients before they are discharged from the ...

Narcan is an over-the-counter prepackaged nasal spray containing naloxone hydrochloride which is an opioid antagonist that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, but only temporarily. According to ...

either by nasal spray or injection. Now, researchers have developed an implant that might be able to automatically rescue people from an opioid OD without outside assistance. Related Study ...

Rutgers University-New Brunswick drug policy researcher Grant Victor found that by distributing free naloxone - a nasal spray used to reverse or limit the effects of opioids (also known by its brand ...

People with opioid use disorder in British Columbia who received methadone had a 37-40 per cent lower rate of treatment discontinuation compared with those who received buprenorphine/naloxone. The new ...

Immediate access to naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, which is an over-the-counter nasal spray that can rapidly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, can be life saving.

Boxes containing two Narcan nasal sprays – which retail for about $57 – were paid for by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Overdose Data to Action grant. The vending machines ...

Narcan is the nasal spray version of Naloxone, which is used to reverse opioid overdoses and the effects of accidental fentanyl poisoning. With the opioid and fentanyl dangers, Narcan has become ...

To determine whether opioid analgesia affects the presence of an SMS, thereby potentially masking the diagnosis, researchers retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients with abdominal pain who ...