FDA approves new hand-held auto-injector to reverse opioid overdose
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a prescription treatment that can be used by family or caregivers to treat a person known or suspected to have had an opioid overdose. Evzio (naloxone hydrochloride injection) rapidly delivers a single dose of the drug naloxone via a hand-held auto-injector that can be carried in a pocket or stored in a medicine chest.
