There is a new opioid related drug product on the market but for once it’s good news. A nasal spray called Narcan has been developed that is an aspirated version of Naloxone – the opioid overdose-reversing medicine. The Narcan nasal spray has already saved countless lives of those who have overdosed on opioids and on …
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A report, issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has highlighted what has been claimed to be the start of the ‘third wave’ of the US’s national opioid epidemic. This wave has been triggered by the increasing use of fentanyl as an illegal opioid to replace prescribed opioid-based painkillers. The first wave of …
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Fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that’s around fifty to one hundred times more potent than heroin – is a problem in itself, but now it is causing potentially life threatening issues to people who are not even aware that they are taking it. Fentanyl is increasingly being found mixed in with other narcotics, most commonly …
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