Antidote to opioid drug overdoses could become more accessible

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 10:31 in Health & Medicine

Over the past 15 years, deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioid overdoses have quadrupled despite the existence of a highly effective antidote. The cover story in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, explores what it might take to turn the tide.

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