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TIL Naloxone (Narcon) has became a mainstay of hospital emergency rooms and medical wards. It can be injected or sprayed up the nose, and can stop/reverse a heroin overdose in under two minutes. It’s so vital the World Health Organization placed the drug on its list of essential medications in 1983.

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