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Denver's City and County Building was bathed in purple light Tuesday night and into Wednesday to acknowledge Overdose Awareness Day and the grim fact that, despite decades of effort, the
Colorado is on track to surpass its record-breaking overdose death toll from last year, state data shows, with fentanyl continuing to play a larger and more deadly role in the
Hospitals give out doses of antidote to fight opioid crisis The project already has 47 hospitals committed to dispensing the overdose antidote to at-risk patients as they are discharged from the emergency department. Author: Associated Press Updated: 9:54 AM CDT May 8, 2021 When doctors write a prescription for the life-saving antidote to an opioid overdose, patients only bother to fill them about 5% of the time. But what if hospital physicians simply handed a vial of naloxone to the patients they worry are most likely to die, particularly those who were just...
When doctors write a prescription for the life-saving antidote to an opioid overdose, patients only bother to fill them about 5% of the time.
The project has 47 hospitals committed to dispensing the overdose antidote to at-risk patients already, as they're discharged emergency rooms.