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Does Narcan Cause Breathing Difficulty?
my friend went into the hosp itasl last night cuz of heroin over dose and got 2 injections of narcan.she is having a very hard time brething and its been about 24 hrs.shes freaking out and scared and i dont know what to tell her to do should she go back to the hosp for help breathing
Tue, 9 Feb 2016
Yeah, this can be a problem. even a fatal one. Narcan blocks overdoses. It doesn't have the same duration as narcotics. It lasts only a brief period of time and if the narcotics is long acting or injected again, it will leave and the narcotic will still be there. dangerous.
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