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please describe what NARCAN is, how it works, and if you feel it has a place in a public health and addictions/recovery...

please describe what NARCAN is, how it works, and if you feel it has a place in a public health and addictions/recovery treatment system.

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Opioids are a group of alkaloids (for example, morphine, and codeine), some of which can cause addiction. Opioid overdose can cause death from respiratory depression.

Morphine binds to the alpha, kappa and mu receptors present in the CNS. Naloxone (NARCAN) or naltrexone is a morphine antagonist that prevent morphine from bind with the receptors by competing with for the receptors. So, in the public health, and addiction/recovery treatment system, NARCAN is used in the treatment of opioid poisoning or opioid overdose.

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