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Missouri Law Enforcement Slow to Embrace Use of Opiate Overdose Antidote Drug
Category: Government & Organizations
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Publish Date: 2015-07-13 13:11:34
Description: A year ago Missouri Gov . Jay Nixon signed HB 2040 into law , allowing law enforcement officers and certified firefighters to carry and administer naloxone , the opiate overdose antidote. Naloxone, or Narcan as it’s sometimes called, instantly reverses an overdose . And while the law has been in an effect for over a year, Missouri law enforcement agencies have not begun to use the drug.
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