Narcan May Have Saved Thousands of Lives in NH

New Hampshire Union Leader - Quotes Seddon Savage, and director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery and Education, in an article on New Hampshire's new initiatives to make the overdose-reversal drug Narcan, also known as naloxone, more widely available to addicts, their families and friends. The new initiative entails distributing 4,500 naloxone kits to law enforcement agencies, emergency rooms, community health centers and community groups. Savage, who has been instrumental in developing the new Narcan initiatives and who co-chairs a task force on opioid addiction, comments on concerns that making Narcan more available could encourage some to try heroin, or use more, without fear of overdose. "That's really regrettable, but I think on balance, more lives are going to be saved," says Savage. "I don't think that having it not available is going to stop people from using heroin."