How to Use naloxone in a Sentence

naloxone

noun

• Reid said all high schools and buses are equipped with naloxone.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• The naloxone will be available free of charge to anyone 18 years old and older.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
• Narcan is a nasal spray version of naloxone, a drug that blocks an opioid’s effect on the brain.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• As is the case with anything, there are still some unknowns about what other issues could arise with over-the-counter naloxone.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 29 Mar. 2023
• Prior to that, naloxone kits were available in the intake area, and a kit was available at the control desk in each housing unit.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
• Records show 110 lives have been saved from naloxone provided there.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 8 July 2019
• The medicine will cost around $2.5 million in state funds and comes on top of regular doses of naloxone stocked in each county.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 7 May 2021
• How naloxone works Narcan works by blocking the effects of opioids on the brain and restoring breathing.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Researchers found that there is no state with enough naloxone to meet demand, even as drug overdoses have surged to a record high.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Narcan is the brand name of naloxone, which is administered as an injection and, as in the case of Narcan, as a nasal spray.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
• The alliance has been working to make naloxone widely available since 2014.
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 17 Jan. 2022
• As overdose deaths nationwide more than doubled in the past decade, it's become clear that naloxone isn't enough.
  — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 1 July 2023
• This is the eighth time a person in San Diego County jail has used the naloxone kits since they were made available in June, authorities said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
• It’s the brand name for the drug naloxone, a life-saving tool that reverses opioid overdoses.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• Over-the-counter naloxone made by other companies is poised to enter the retail market, too.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2023
• Last week, the Anchorage School District ensured all principals had a naloxone kit and knew how to use it.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• More than 7,000 overdoses have been reversed in over six years with the naloxone her group distributes, Plumb said.
  — Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, an over-the-counter drug, can reverse the effects of opioids, including fentanyl.
  — Brian Hallenbeck, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
• Narcan is indeed here — the white boxes of naloxone spray that can pull someone out of an opioid overdose.
  — Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Narcan, the nasal spray version of naloxone, has received F.D.A. approval to be sold over the counter and should be widely available by late summer.
  — Shoshana Walter, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Narcan, the nasal spray version of naloxone, has received F.D.A. approval to be sold over the counter and should be widely available by late summer.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• The manager listened to Piccolo's instructions on how to use Narcan, the brand name of the drug naloxone, and added four boxes of the nasal spray to the hotel's first-aid kit.
  — Katheryn Houghton, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
• Starting last year, the jail began to distribute naloxone to inmates being released from the jail as well.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Training for district staff in the use a naloxone will begin in early October.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• Paramedics who responded to the home attempted to use naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, on the child, the report said.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• The higher dose naloxone is expected to be available later this year.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2022
• In the event of an overdose, staff can administer the antidote naloxone.
  — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Arizona nonprofit Sonoran Prevention Works has a tool of where the public can find free naloxone: https://spwaz.org/arizonanaloxone/.
  — Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• But Baugh also wants to see more education and awareness about naloxone, a medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 30 Sep. 2024
• Crested Butte could have bought nine doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone with the amount of money the town has received so far from Colorado’s opioid settlement funds — but that might not have been enough to cover the sales tax, too.
  — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024