A man’s life has been saved in Kettering following a police officer’s decision to deploy Naloxone. Naloxone is a nasal spray which serves as an emergency antidote for overdoses caused by heroin and other opiates or opioids. It works by temporarily reversing the effects of the overdose by reversing the depression of the central nervous and respiratory systems. Naloxone prevents the opioid from blocking the breathing centres of the brain which would cause suffocation - the main cause of death in o

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