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Public health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found ...

Are dropping fentanyl-related death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction?

Secondary students will learn how to administer naloxone and other tools available to them to help someone overdosing ...

A University of the Pacific team has developed a single-dose injection to counter the effects of fentanyl and other opioid ...

It's the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in over 20 years, designed to eliminate risks of addiction and ...

Naloxone, the extremely effective overdose ... and expose people to a higher risk of severe side effects, including prolonged withdrawal symptoms which cause significant suffering.

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

KLOXXADO® (naloxone HCl) Nasal Spray 8 mg Contraindications ... to a single dose of KLOXXADO®, one spray in one nostril. Side effects were reported in two subjects for each of the following ...