Maine Lawmakers Consider Heroin Overdose Drug

Maine Lawmakers Consider Heroin Overdose Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a prescription treatment that can be used by family members or caregivers to help reverse the effects of a heroin or other opioid overdose. Known as Evzio, the hand-held injection device rapidly …
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RI has tools to spot prescription drug abusers, but few prescribers use them
But curbing prescription-drug abuse may require improving the databases, which contain no record of painkillers and other controlled substances administered to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, veterans' homes or military facilities. Neither does …
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