Narcan: Widening access to overcome opioid overdoses
Consider the widespread availability of Narcan, its potential to save lives amid the opioid crisis, and the evolving societal acceptance of its use.
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Massachusetts harm reduction pioneer Chris Alba dies at 50
As a result of Alba’s outreach, hundreds of people who would have died from infections and overdoses are alive.
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'Just trying to help him stay alive' - Chicago Reader
As overdose deaths soar to record highs, patchwork funding streams complicate how harm reduction program providers can schedule services.
Source: chicagoreader.com
Narcan over the counter: Naloxone will now be available at drugstores. Is it enough?
“I am hopeful. I just don't think it's enough. And I think it comes very late in the process.”
Source: slate.com
How we can all become abortion providers
S.F.’s naloxone distribution program is a model for how we can all become abortion drug...
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The use of Narcan to reverse drug overdoses in San Francisco began as an underground movement more than two decades ago. It's part of a long history of harm reduction that stretches from the Summer of Love in 1967 to today's fentanyl crisis.
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