Physician anesthesiologist Bonnie Milas, M.D., experienced firsthand the power of naloxone – a drug that reverses opioid overdose – having used it to save her son when she found him unresponsive on the kitchen floor. With drug overdose deaths hitting…
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Drug Historian Offers Insight on Dramatic Surge of Opioid Overdoses
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released recently show that deaths from opioid overdoses surged during the pandemic. This week, a New York Times story called it “an increasingly urgent public health crisis,” noting that the…