More States Say Doctors Must Offer Overdose Reversal Drug Along With Opioids

05:00 EST 21 Feb 2019 | Kaiser Health News

In an emerging new tactic against the rising toll of opioid deaths, California, Ohio, Virginia and Arizona are among the states requiring physicians to offer patients naloxone when they give them prescriptions for the powerful painkillers. The Food and Drug Administration is weighing a national recommendation to do so.

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