| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Naloxon
NYC Revamps Pharmacies’ Role in Preventing Overdose Deaths
NYC Revamps Pharmacies’ Role in Preventing Overdose Deaths
New York City, like the rest of the country, is facing a historic overdose crisis driven by illicit fentanyl adulterating the unregulated drug supply and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the city’s health department has made naloxone, the overdose-reversal medication, available free-of-charge at chain pharmacies in highly impacted neighborhoods from which the city has historically divested. (Filter Magazine, USA, 06.01.2021)