Antidotes provide a direct way to counteract acute adverse effects of a drug; for example, protamine can be used to combat bleeding due to administration of the anticoagulant heparin. However ...

Purpose Appropriate therapies for commonly encountered poisonings, medication overdoses ... providing emergency care routinely stock 24 antidotes for a wide range of toxicities, including toxic ...

The US death toll from fentanyl is falling as communities hand out overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Behind the good news, opioids remain rife – and users report harrowing effects from the antidote.

An FDA-approved medication called glucarpidase could serve as an antidote to kidney toxicity in patients receiving the chemotherapy drug methotrexate (MTX), according to a new study. Using data ...

A coroner has called on the Government to make an antidote more widely available after the death of a man from a synthetic opioid overdose. Joseph Forbes Black, 39, died after taking drugs, including ...

Users and police in this city’s beaten-down Hilltop neighborhood credit another drug flooding the United States: the overdose antidote naloxone. James “Sleaze” Morgan says naloxone has saved ...