EditorialA still image from video demonstrating the use of Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, in New York on March 28, 2023. (Elliot deBruyn/The New York Times)
EditorialA still image from video demonstrating the use of Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, in New York on March 28, 2023. (Elliot deBruyn/The New York Times)
EditorialCarlos Del Valle, left, and Shawn Westfahl walk around the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa., handing out Narcan and directing people to wound care and needle exchange clinics, on Dec. 6, 2022. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialProject Weber stations a van in Providence’s busy Kennedy Plaza every weekday, with bins of safe smoking kits tucked in brown bags and Narcan boxes displayed on a folding table. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialA member of the nonprofit Sidewalk Project passes out clean needles, Narcan, water, clothing, snacks and other supplies in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 2022. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialSoma Snakeoil of the nonprofit Sidewalk Project, center, passes out clean needles, Narcan, water, clothing, snacks and other supplies in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialA community outreach event explaining how to use naloxone, or Narcan, which can save drug users who overdose, in St. Louis, May 6, 2019. (Whitney Curtis/The New York Times)
EditorialCarol Harney, director of the South Jersey AIDS Alliance, talks in an office at Oasis, a testing and support center, in Atlantic City, N.J., on Friday, July 23, 2021. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
EditorialNolan Loveday, 10, looks at a Narcan nasal sprayer during training on how to administer the drug, at the public library in Elizabethton, Tenn., Jan. 15, 2020. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialA doctor holds a dose of Narcan, a nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose, at a clinic in St. Charles, Va., Aug. 10, 2019. (Johnathon Kelso/The New York Times)