Australian demand for overdose drug naloxone more than doubles after spike in synthetic opioid deaths

Take Home Naloxone program, which allows access without a prescription, sees rise in use after multiple reports of people who unknowingly used laced drugs and died

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Demand for a life-saving opioid overdose drug has doubled in one year as a whole new cohort" of stimulant and hallucinogenic users, fearful of taking lethally laced narcotics, have rushed to get the medication.

Prior to a recent spike in overdose deaths, regular users of illicit opioids were the predominant users of naloxone, which can rapidly reverse an overdose.

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