With tranq, naloxone isn’t the antidote it became amid the opioid crisis

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The immediate response to drug overdoses used to be to administer naloxone.

It still is — just sometimes not as effective.

In what Sarah Laurel of Savage Sisters — a nonprofit providing trauma-informed recovery housing, harm reduction services and education in Pennsylvania — describes as a “poly-chemical substance wave,” naloxone is no longer the cure-all…

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