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USA. Amid rising opioid overdose calls, city EMS to provide drug used in recovery 

USA. Amid rising opioid overdose calls, city EMS to provide drug used in recovery 

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On Monday, the Office of Community Health and Safety announced the successful beginnings of a pilot program that equips first responders to overdose calls with buprenorphine, a drug used to gradually helps opioid-users curb their use and recover from addiction. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, USA, 07.12.2021)

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2021/11/26/pittsburgh-opioid-overdose-deaths-ems-naloxone-buprenorphine-program/stories/202111190158