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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

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

Tarlise Townsend, University of Michigan and Freida Blostein, University of Michigan

Opioid overdoses killed 47,000 Americans in 2017 — more than gun violence. Many fewer would have died if they’d been treated with the life-saving drug naloxone, also called Narcan.

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