Updated: Oct 18, 2022
Naloxone is now available in most places without a prescription. Naloxone is a temporary antidote for opioid drugs which include but are not limited to heroin, fentanyl, morphine, codeine, oxycodone, hydromorphone.
Addiction Policy Forum announces a comprehensive Overdose Awareness Toolkit in collaboration with the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy.
Two panels of Food & Drug Administration advisors voted unanimously to recommend approval of overdose-reversing nasal spray for over-the-counter use. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/health/narcan-n
The Food and Drug Administration’s independent advisors unanimously recommended over-the-counter use of Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, which would significantly expand access to the lifesaving tr
