A single-dose antidote may help prevent fentanyl overdoses

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/single-dose-antidote-may-help-prevent-fentanyl-overdoses?tgt=nr

A single-dose opioid antidote is currently being tested on mice, showing that they last several days. Before, these doses lasted for 30 minutes, which is not enough time to counteract the opioids that are in the system, causing an overdose. These could last for several hours up to a couple of days, so this new antidote is a new breakthrough. If it is proven that these antidotes will prevent mice from overdosing, then the formula will be adapted to fit humans.

This is a huge breakthrough in the science field, because the opioid outbreak has been an issue, especially more recently. If antidotes can be produced to counteract these drugs, the amount of deaths by overdose will decrease, and many lives will be saved.


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  1. AnonymousApril 5, 2019 at 7:26 AM

    This is a great medical breakthrough. People are having there drugs cut with fentanyl without knowing, and it ultimately kills them. I think this would help out a lot, because maybe we could save some people.

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  2. AnonymousApril 5, 2019 at 7:31 AM

    It's nice to hear that there is a breakthrough in this epidemic. I think this will definitely save a lot of peoples lives.

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