By the time Elvis Rosado was 25, he was addicted to opioids and serving time in jail for selling drugs to support his habit. "I was like, 'I have to kick this, I have to break this,' " he says. For Rosado, who lives in Philadelphia, drugs had become a way to disassociate from "the reality that was life." He'd wake up physically needing the drugs to function. His decision to finally stop using propelled him into another challenging chapter of his addiction and one of the mos

Great news! Starting June 1, 2017, anyone can get naloxone at a Maryland pharmacy without a prescription. [https://bha.health.maryland.gov/NALOXONE/Pages/Naloxone.aspx] For those who are unfamiliar with Naloxone, in short, Naloxone (NARCAN®, EVZIO®) is a prescription medication that safely and effectively reverses an opioid overdose. Jack Fishman is the man who invented naloxone. He was born in 1930 in Poland and fled from the Nazis and eventually immigrated to the U.S. It wa