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US urges doctors to write more Rx for overdose antidote
Move could add more than $1B to health care costs
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In this Tuesday, July 3, 2018 file photo, a Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Wednesday, the U.S. government told doctors to consider prescribing the overdose antidote naloxone to many more patients who take opioid painkillers. - photo by Associated Press
The U.S. government told doctors Wednesday to consider prescribing medications that reverse overdoses to many more patients who take opioid painkillers in a move that could add more than $1 billion in health care costs.
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