BILLERICA — The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office has become the first sheriff’s office in Massachusetts to install a naloxone vending machine, providing the lifesaving opioid overdose reversal ...

The survey takes less than 30 seconds to complete. In addition to dispensing the naloxone, the vending machine features a video and graphics with instructions on how to properly administer the ...

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Individuals using the vending machine can access the naloxone anonymously but will answer a brief survey regarding age, race, and gender to help inform future sheriff’s office programming. The vending ...

THE STORE IS, HOWEVER, BACK OPEN. EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES AND FIGHT THE OPIOID CRISIS ARE GETTING A BOOST IN LOUISVILLE, WITH NALOXONE BOXES BEING INSTALLED AT FIRE STATIONS ACROSS THE CITY.

Massachusetts officials are making naloxone available at three state Department of Transportation facilities, as the state pushes to expand access to the overdose reversal drug. MassDOT said ...

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A naloxone vending machine was installed at the Middlesex Jail and House of Correction in Billerica last month, offering free doses of the overdose-reversing drug to all visitors and staff ...

“Meeting the needs of our patients and customers by now offering two nasal naloxone products at different strengths – NARCAN ® Nasal Spray 4 mg and KLOXXADO ® Nasal Spray 8 mg – allows ...

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Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68(15):1419-1425. The short duration of activity of naloxone when the drug is administered as an i.v. bolus may limit its effectiveness for the management of OIP.