Thursday, April 26, 2012

Naloxone

  • WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin. His mother ran outside, frantically assembling a pen-like canister.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • (UPDATED) "Why didn't I know about this when my child was alive?" That was the question raised over and over at a U.S.
  • (Time)
  • The man had overdosed, wasnt breathing, was already turning blue. Gessner jabbed him with a syringe containing naloxone, as he had been trained to do. The man survived.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Narcan—or naloxone, its generic name—counteracts the effects of heroin, OxyContin and other powerful painkillers. It has been routinely used by ambulance crews and emergency rooms in the U.S. for decades.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration held a groundbreaking and powerful full-day hearing on making the generic, prescription-only opioid overdose antidote naloxone more widely available.
  • (AlterNet)
  • He had overdosed, wasnt breathing, already turning blue. Mr. Gessner jabbed him with a syringe containing naloxone, as he had been trained to do. The man survived. It is a good feeling, said Mr.
  • (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • She ended up managing the pain with street drugs. In 2004, she overdosed on heroin. If my boyfriend had not had naloxone I would have died in an abandoned warehouse, Englander, 32, said in an interview. The experience started her on a path to recovery.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering whether to allow non-prescription use of naloxone (Narcan), which can prevent opioid overdose from heroin or Vicodin, Time.com reports. Opioid-based substances can slowly stop a person's breathing.
  • (AIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment News)

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