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Bill Would Expand Access To Overdose Antidote Drug

Of the 57 overdoses reported during a single week in July, 40 lives were saved because Naloxone was given during the overdose
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Naloxone has been touted as an heroin overdose reversal drug.

Ross Reynolds talks to Dennis Donovan, director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington, about a bill which would grant wider access to the opiate overdose medication, Naloxone.