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This overdose-reversal medicine could reduce opioid deaths – so why don't more people carry it?

  • Written by Tarlise Townsend, Joint PhD Student, Health Policy and Sociology, University of Michigan
This overdose-reversal medicine could reduce opioid deaths – so why don't more people carry it?Naloxone, available as a nasal spray called Narcan or in injectable form, resuscitates 100% of people who overdose if administered quickly. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

Forty-seven thousand Americans died of opioid-related overdoses in 2017 – similar to the number of deaths from car accidents and gun violence.

That number could have been much...

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