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WVU in the News: CDC: Not enough doctors prescribing naloxone

Naloxone prescription rates have improved, but there were many “missed opportunities” to potentially avoid opioid-overdose related deaths, new CDC data show.

The data prompted officials from the CDC and HHS to encourage physicians, pharmacists and others to work together to boost naloxone prescription rates even higher.

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