Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sep. 14—BLUEFIELD — Free naloxone, which is used to reverse opioid overdoses, is being offered today in Mercer, McDowell and Monroe Counties as part of Appalachian Save a Life Day. Naloxone is ...
Narcan, known generically as Naloxone, is an overdose reversal drug that's risen in use as the opioid epidemic has continued to grow. Paramedics have it. Schools have it. But some local experts ...
This paper also found a positive correlation between naloxone access and the number of uses and/or potency of each use of opioids. [ 37 ] Dr. Laura G. Kehoe, medical director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Bridge Clinic, shared in a U.S. News article that she believed stigma surrounding drug use to be a driving ...
Naloxone was created in a laboratory, patented in 1961, and approved by the FDA a decade later. [1] It was first proposed in the 1990s for community-based provisions of take-home naloxone rescue kits (THN) to opioid users, which involved training opioid users, along with their family or friends, in awareness, emergency management, and administration of naloxone. [2]
Naloxone is a non-selective and competitive opioid receptor antagonist. [6] [17] It reverses the depression of the central nervous system and respiratory system caused by opioids. [13] Naloxone was patented in 1961 and approved for opioid overdose in the United States in 1971. [18] [19] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential ...
There were 176 fentanyl-related deaths reported in Tarrant County in 2022, according to Tarrant County Public Health.
Jack Fishman (September 30, 1930 – December 7, 2013), born Jacob Fiszman, was a Jewish-American pharmaceutical researcher from Kraków, Poland. [1] In 1961, along with Mozes J. Lewenstein, he developed the medication naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described as a "a life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose from ...
The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257. In the past decade, Arizona’s heroin deaths rose by more than 90 percent. New York City had 420 heroin overdose deaths in 2013 — the most in a decade.