Another safety concept to understand before administering Narcan nasal spray, according toMichael Litterer, acertified prevention specialistand vice president of prevention and recovery at RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery in Eatontown, New Jersey, is that a person who overdoses bu...
[A] fatal overdose in February at a San Francisco library branch pushed officials there to forge ahead with Narcan training for security officers, social workers and employees who help the homeless, said Michelle Jeffers, a library spokeswoman. ...
and a little bit of a conversation about why they may have overdosed that day, or what we can do to help them. Maybe as of four or three years ago, they would’ve been discharged with a box of Narcan or naloxone so that if they were ...
At the Miami Recovery Project, the mission is to help people on their road to recovery through a variety of free and confidential services, includingpeer support, overdose prevention training and Narcan distribution. Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, is a prescription medicine used to reverse o...
At the Miami Recovery Project, the mission is to help people on their road to recovery through a variety of free and confidential services, includingpeer support, overdose prevention training and Narcan distribution. Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, is a prescription medicine used to reverse ...
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 ...
“On any given day, we can see drug deals going down in the parking lot behind us. We can see police officers administering Narcan to bring people back, and our children are going home and finding their parents with needles in their arms, drugs in their homes, strangers coming in and ou...
To prepare their bodies for the combat style and rhythm of Jedi warriors, Ridley, Driver, and Hamill did martial arts training, says Christopher Vincent of Althus Health. Vincent was on set to work with actors during the filming of The Last Jedi, as well as Rogue One and The Force Awaken...