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Upstate hospitals are at odds over how to handle patients who are treated for opioid overdoses in emergency rooms.
Prisma Health s Greenville Memorial Hospital and Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System give patients naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversal drug, as they re being discharged. That s so even if they re not ready to seek recovery from addiction, they have an antidote that could keep them alive if they overdose again.
Bon Secours St. Francis hopes to distribute naloxone in the future, but a spokesperson said the hospital doesn t yet have the proper measures in place.
AnMed Health does not hand out naloxone, and its emergency room director questions the value of doing so. ....

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