The next naloxone? Companies, academics search for better overdose-reversal drugs

ATLANTA – Dr. Nora Volkow has heard a frightening scenario play out around the country. People are administering naloxone to synthetic opioid drug users who have overdosed. But the antidote doesn’t work well. So they give another dose. And it’s only after multiple doses – four, five, even six times – that drug users finally come…