Narcan

[nahr-kan]

Pharmacology,

1. a brand of naloxone.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Narcan¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

In response, California started requiring campus health centers at most public colleges and universities to make the opioid overdose-reversing nasal spray Narcan available to students in campus residences.

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“She relapsed over seven times, died twice, Narcan twice, and she’s nine-plus years sober now,” Kitsch says.

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County Inspector General’s office detailed two incidents where youths were taken to local medical facilities or revived with Narcan after fentanyl overdoses.

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Meanwhile, underground syringe exchanges and shooting galleries spawned across the country, with sterile needles, Narcan, wipes and bins at hand, all in violation of the 1986 “crackhouse statute” which outlaws premises used for illicit drug-taking.

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What do you think would happen, I asked my daughter, a nurse practitioner who works in addiction medicine, if Narcan, the drug that reverses opiate overdoses, were suddenly to disappear from pharmacy shelves?

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