Banner Thunderbird Medical Center recently implemented a naloxone distribution program to help treat patients who overdose on opioids. This comes in response to the hospital seeing more than 80 of
An emergency physician says his hospital in Glendale is receiving opioid-overdose patients at a pace that would translate to a roughly 25% increase from 2023.Banner Thunderbird Medical Center is responding by proactively giving out overdose-reversal medication.Hospital officials are now giving naloxone, brand name Narcan, to patients and people able to help someone at-risk of