High cost of naloxone prompts rural Arkansas pharmacists to keep life-saving medicine behind counter

High cost of naloxone prompts rural Arkansas pharmacists to keep life-saving medicine behind counter

A box of 24 doses of naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, as seen at Arkansas' Camp Robinson during a distribution drive for law enforcement officers in August 2023.The life-saving medicine naloxone was approved for nonprescription sale more than two years ago, but many rural Arkansas pharmacies still keep the overdose-reversal kit behind the counter. Of 15 pharmacies the Advocate contacted for this article, all but two kept naloxone behind the c…