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Drug czar R. Gil Kerlikowske calls for more access to heroin antidote

November 21, 2014

By DANIEL ROTHBERG

WASHINGTON — White House drug czar R. Gil Kerlikowske on Tuesday called for making naloxone, a drug that has been highly effective at reversing heroin overdoses, more widely available to emergency-care providers and other first responders.More.

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