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April 4, 2014

Drug Overdose Treatment Approved for Home Use amid Nationwide Epidemic 
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In a step toward preventing deaths from drug overdoses, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration has approved an emergency overdose treatment for
use in homes and other non-medical settings. When activated, the
treatment device, called Evzio, delivers verbal instructions on how to
inject a dose of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an
overdose on heroin or painkillers. The FDA said the move will help save
lives amid a nationwide epidemic of drug overdoses, which now claim more
lives in the United States each year than car accidents.

 

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