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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Geoff Mulvihill

FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here’s what it means

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.

It’s a move that some advocates have long sought as a way to improve access to a life-saving drug, though the exact impact will not be clear immediately.

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