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Late one night after work in Oct. 2017, 22-year-old Tucker Robinson bought what he believed was a bag of heroin without realizing it contained fentanyl. After getting high in the bathroom, Robinson crawled into his cramped room, where his heart stopped. Two minutes later, his roommate came back and saved his life with Narcan. Robinson.
As of this week, you can now walk into a CVS, Walgreens, or Walmart and find the powerful opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone on shelves or online under the brand name Narcan. Previously, customers could only access the nasal spray directly from a pharmacist on site.