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Kroger to Offer Anti-Overdose Drug Without Prescription
By: Associated Press
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Update 11:21 a.m.
CINCINNATI (AP) – Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger Co. is going to make the heroin overdose-reversal drug naloxone available without a prescription in its pharmacies across Ohio and northern Kentucky.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, joined Kroger officials at a Cincinnati store for Friday’s announcement. Kroger says 200 pharmacies will offer naloxone over the counter within a week.
CVS said recently it would soon offer naloxone without a prescription at its Ohio pharmacies.
Ohio fire crews use naloxone thousands of times a year to revive opioid overdose victims. Ohio overdose deaths jumped 18 percent rise in 2014, one of the nation’s sharpest increases.
Cincinnati-based Kroger is the nation’s largest traditional grocer and has 2,774 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia.
CINCINNATI (AP) – Ohio-based Kroger Co. is ready to make an announcement about the availability of a heroin overdose antidote.
The store has scheduled a news conference for Friday morning at a Cincinnati store to make an announcement regarding naloxone, which reverses the effects of opiate overdoses. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman are expected to attend.
CVS announced earlier this month it would make naloxone available without a prescription at all of its pharmacies in Ohio beginning next month.
Naloxone is routinely carried by fire-rescue crews, which use it thousands of times a year in Ohio to revive overdose victims.
Kroger, based in Cincinnati, has 2,774 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia.