Colorado Allows Pharmacies to Dispense Naloxone Without a Prescription as Overdose Deaths Climb
Coming at a time when heroin and opioid overdoses are gripping the nation, a new Colorado law allows pharmacies to sell naloxone without a prescription. A number of states are allowing measures like Colorado’s to combat increasing overdose death rates associated with prescription opioid and heroin abuse.
NABP’s AWARXE® Prescription Drug Safety Program is working to reduce opioid and heroin over...

