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An overdose drug is finally over-the-counter. Is that enough to stop the death toll?

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Jackie Fortiér

September 26, 2023

Rosalind Pichardo, who founded Operation Save Our City in Philadelphia, sprays a container of Narcan during a demonstration Sept. 8 at the Health and Human Services Humphrey Building in Washington, DC. Health officials held the event to mark the availability, without a prescription, of the opioid overdose-reversal drug. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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