Life-Saving Naloxone from Pharmacies: More Dispensing Needed Despite Progress: CDC Vital Signs: 08/06/2019

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  About 48,000 US drug overdose deaths involved opioids in 2017. Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Pharmacists and other healthcare providers play a critical role in ensuring patients receive naloxone. Many states have laws that allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone without a prescription (called standing orders), which have contributed to lowering deaths. Dispensing has increased in recent years, but more work needs to be done, particularly in rural counties.
  
  Want to learn more? www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/naloxone
  
  CS306768A
  
  vs-0806-naloxone-H.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Drug Overdose/drug Therapy Naloxone Narcotic Antagonists/therapeutic Use Opioid-Related Disorders/drug Therapy
• Series:
  Vital Signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:35aba77c7271ca3aa617ff0de2351c555245e52db9ebd5eb2f04e76514ade017fcc339cf3b719c2ecf7764890af461d23c75e644ff869a2627ec14f0feba45d0
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