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    Narcan Opioid Overdose Spray Is Now Stocked By All Walgreens Pharmacies

    Letting people get the medicine "without an individual prescription in 45 states, is critical in combating this crisis," says the CEO of Narcan maker Adapt Pharma.
    by Bill Chappell Oct 26, 2017 2 minutes
    A man checks out an anti-overdose kit he was given at a clinic. With America confronting an opioid epidemic, Walgreens says it will stock naloxone spray at all of its pharmacies. / Richard Lautens / Getty Images

    It has the power to save lives by targeting opioid overdoses — something that kills more than 140 Americans every day. And now Narcan, the nasal spray that can pull a drug user back from an overdose, is being carried by all of Walgreens' more than 8,000 pharmacies.

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