“If not for Naloxone, it’s likely that tens of thousands more Americans would have died in 2019-2020.”
(American Medical Association)
Naloxone is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose.
It is an opioid antagonist. It attaches to opioid receptors and reverses and blocks the effects of other opioids.
Naloxone is a safe medicine. It only reverses overdoses in people with opioids in their systems. (Source: NIH)
Source: Mass.gov (https://www.mass.gov/service-details/naloxone-facts-and-formulations)