No more!" No more being a slave to dope! It’s time to change! That’s when I decided to put my foot down, quit dope, and turn my life around. I stopped shooting dope, stopped doing crime, cut off all my dope friends and relocated to Orlando Florida. ...
there wasn't all this education about opioids (at that time)," O'Hara said. "I had these pills, they were painkillers. I went back to the locker room, I took two
Altering fentanyl to lessen its dangerous side effects for patients who need its pain-reducing abilities could help slow the drug's addiction. To make this possible, a team of researchers from the University of Florida, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Southern California and...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved an IN formulation of naloxone (Narcan nasal spray—Adapt) for emergency treatment of opioid overdose. It is the first nasal spray to be approved for this indication using a mucosal atomizer device. The drug also recently became available ...
"We've carried Narcan on the ambulance for years, since the 1980s. It used to be a drug that would expire and we never used," Merry said. "We have almost doubled the amount of Narcan we carry on the ambulance now because there are so many overdoses and we cannot get back (to th...
The findings of the study, which compared nonfatal opioid-related overdoses in Florida using naloxone (Narcan) distributed by emergency medical services during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to the same time period in 2019, suggest that women in rural counties, Hispanics...