Prescription Drug Abuse & Overcoming Addiction, Shands Vista Florida Recovery Center

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Denver Health gives drug addicts nasal syringe antidote to prevent deadly …

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In a clinical setting, the drug is given through an injection. Now doctors at Denver Health Medical Center are giving prescriptions directly to patients, allowing a family member or friend to use a nasal syringe to spray Naloxone into an individual's …
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Naloxone, drug that combats heroin overdoses, unavailable to most NH …

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Naloxone – commonly known by its brand name, Narcan – can stop the breathing failure that causes death in overdoses of heroin and other opioids, including prescription painkillers such as OxyContin. Naloxone can be administered by nasal spray or …
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Families struggle with crisis after crisis when a loved one is addicted

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"When a kid is full-blown addicted, the parents for the most part are powerless," he says. Roughly a third of their clients hail from Staten Island. Over the past five years, most have been treated for prescription drug addiction, but the borough's …
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