Doctors Turn to Narcan to Battle Heroin Highs

Doctors turn to Narcan to battle heroin highs
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) – It's thanks to one drug that many doctors said the growing number of heroin overdose don't become fatalities. It's called … Fifty-four percent of the people paramedics gave Narcan to had improved consciousness or … Read more on WXOW.com

This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?
This week, the New York Times' Deborah Sontag published an extensive two-part series, “Addiction treatment with a dark side,” on buprenorphine misuse. The piece is vividly written. … Sontag cites a statistic that buprenorphine was involved on the … Read more on Washington Post (blog)