“Each day we lose 115 Americans to an opioid overdose – that’s one person every 12.5 minutes. It is time to make sure more people have access to this life saving medication, because 77 percent of opioid overdose deaths occur outside of a medical setting and more than half occur at home.”
Dr. Jerome Adams,
US Surgeon General
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Anyone who takes opioids is at risk of overdose. Naloxone is a life-saving medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. If we hope to curb the epidemic of opioid overdose death, it is essential that emergency departments across the country start prescribing and dispensing naloxone to at-risk patients so that patients and families have this life saving medication at their fingertips. ERNaloxone.org provides education about overdose and naloxone for patients and their families and resources for emergency clinicians to start take-home naloxone programs in their emergency departments. Together, we can dramatically increase the availability of naloxone and help end the epidemic of opioid overdoses.