How to Overdose Safely

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It doesn't do anything to you if you are not on an open. It would work for anything that is an opioid. What it won't work on is other kinds of overdose, like alcohol. There's a tranquilizer right now that's been making its way into the drug supply.

The drug that brings people overdosing on opioids back from the brink of death in minutes just got approved for over-the-counter use. The Wall Street Journal’s Julie Wernau explains why she carries it with her everywhere she goes.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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