FDA Approves User-Friendly Device to Reverse Opioid Drug Overdoses
FDA approves user-friendly device to reverse opioid drug overdoses
Family, friends or passersby who encounter a person passed out from a heroin or other opioid overdose may soon be able to administer a drug to reverse the effects themselves before waiting for first responders to arrive. … It comes a week after …
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FDA OK's injector device to counter drug overdoses
Family, friends, or passersby who encounter a person passed out from a heroin or other opioid overdose could soon be able to administer a drug to reverse the effects before waiting for first responders to arrive. The Food and Drug Administration said …
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Drugs: Why only some become addicted
They suggested that this abnormal increase in grey matter volume, which they believe predates drug use, might reflect resilience to the effects of cocaine. The team found that the same region was significantly reduced in size in people with cocaine …
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COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER: UW-Extension
“Many prevention programs focus on youth only, and most have small effects,” says Karen Bogenschneider, family policy specialist with UW-Extension and Rothermel Bascom professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Programs that …
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