To help fight the growing cases of drug overdoses, the state is allowing anyone to get Narcan through the Alabama Department of Mental Health for free.
This the highest the death toll has been to date, which is why the Food and Drug Administration is pushing for drug companies to make Naloxone an over-the-counter drug to treat fentanyl overdoses.
Naloxone, a nasal spray used to recover someone overdosing, has already been administered to big organizations and schools in Alabama, but it’s not widely available to the public.Dr. Julia Boothe, president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, says substances are being laced with fentanyl and is killing people as young as two years old.Boothe said many of people that have overdosed were not trying to use fentanyl and that they thought they were getting some other substance.
Test strips to see if a substance is laced with fentanyl are also available through the department of mental health. To help fight the growing cases of drug overdoses, the state is allowing anyone to get Narcan through the
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