The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.
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The key culprit appears to be the widespread availability of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk expands efforts to fight heroin overdoses in Cook and surrounding counties.