NEW YORK — Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades.
Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths
Prescriptions of naloxone soaring
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