Naloxone hydrochloride reverses the potentially fatal respiratory depression caused by opioid overdose and has been used increasingly since 1996. In October 2010, the Harm Reduction Coalition emailed a survey to the 50 programs known to distribute naloxone. From 1996-June 2010, programs reported providing training and distributing naloxone to an estimated 53,032 people and received reports of 10,171 overdose reversals using naloxone. Twenty-one (43.7 percent) programs reported problems obtaining naloxone in the “past few months” before the survey.
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