Virtual reality trains public to reverse opioid overdoses

ScienceDaily
Sep 14, 2020, 4:07 pm141 pts
The United States has seen a 200% increase in the rate of deaths by opioid overdose in the last 20 years. But many of these deaths were preventable. Naloxone, also called Narcan, is a prescription drug that reverses opioid overdoses, and in more than 40 states there is a standing order policy, which makes it…

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