The FDA Is Doing Something That Could Actually Cut Overdose Deaths

By spring, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses may become available at your local pharmacy without a prescription.

Last week Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was fast-tracking approval of over-the-counter sales of Narcan, a nasal spray of naloxone, which can quickly treat and reverse an opioid overdose before it kills.