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Naloxone Implant Might Prevent Opioid Overdose

THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 – Naloxone can save a person’s life by reversing a potentially fatal opioid overdose, and is now available as an over-the-counter medication. Unfortunately, there’s a very sig...

Naloxone Implant Might Prevent Opioid Overdose

THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 – Naloxone can save a person’s life by reversing a potentially fatal opioid overdose, and is now available as an over-the-counter medication. Unfortunately, there’s a very sig...

Fatal Opioid-Meth Overdoses Have Fallen in U.S. by More Than a Third

TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 – Expanded access to addiction treatment and the overdose-reversal med naloxone likely prompted a 37% reduction in OD deaths linked to opioids taken with meth or other...

Methadone Tied to Lower Risk for Discontinuation Versus Buprenorphine/Naloxone

FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 – Receipt of methadone for opioid use disorder is associated with a lower risk for treatment discontinuation compared with buprenorphine/naloxone, according to a study...

Rate of Layperson-Administered Naloxone Increased From 2020 to 2022

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 – The rate of layperson-administered naloxone (LAN) increased from 2020 to 2022, according to a study published online Oct. 14 in JAMA Network Open. Christopher B. Gage, ...

More Bystanders Are Using Naloxone to Save Folks From Overdose

MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 – More bystanders are stepping in to administer naloxone to people who’ve overdosed on opioids, a new study shows. Nearly 25,000 OD patients received naloxone from an untrained ...

2017 to 2022 Saw Increase in Naloxone Prescribing Among Adolescents

THURSDAY, Sept. 12, 2024 – From 2017 to 2022, there was an increase in naloxone prescribing among adolescents, with pediatricians accounting for an increasing proportion of prescriptions dispensed,...

Naloxone Aids Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes, Regardless of Drug Use

THURSDAY, Aug. 29, 2024 – Regardless of drug use, administration of naloxone during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with improved outcomes, such as increased survival to hospital...

Most Americans Unprepared to Handle Opioid Overdoses

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 – More than three in four people (77 percent) say they would not know how to respond if they saw someone having an opioid overdose, according to survey results from The Ohio...

Most Americans Unsure How to Help Someone in Opioid Overdose

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 – The U.S. opioid epidemic has caused a startling number of overdose deaths, but a new survey shows that most Americans still have no idea how to help an OD victim. More than 3...

Most U.S. Psychiatric Hospitalizations Do Not Involve Substances

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 – Most psychiatric hospitalizations do not involve substances, according to a study published in the Sept. 1 issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Susan L. Calcaterra, M.D., ...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Opioid Pain Relievers or Medicines to Treat Opioid Use Disorder - FDA Recommends Health Care Professionals Discuss Naloxone with All Patients when Prescribing

ISSUE: FDA is requiring drug manufacturers for all opioid pain relievers and medicines to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) to add new recommendations about naloxone to the prescribing information....

FDA Medwatch Alert: Naloxone Hydrochloride Injection, USP, 0.4 mg/mL, 1 mL in 2.5 mL in the Carpuject™ Single-use Cartridge Syringe System by Hospira: Recall - Due to the Potential Presence of Particulate Matter

ISSUE: Hospira, Inc., a Pfizer company, is voluntarily recalling lots 72680LL and 76510LL of Naloxone Hydrochloride Injection, USP, 0.4 mg/mL, 1 mL in 2.5 mL, Carpuject Single-use cartridge syringe...

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