Gizmodo reports many more people have access to the opioid overdose antidote naloxone.<br />Now, the CDC says that may have slightly reduced the number of opioid-related deaths.<br />Between 2012 to 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found naloxone prescriptions rose dramatically.<br />In 2012, there were only 1,282 such prescriptions.<br />But in 2018, there were 556,847 naloxone prescriptions, slightly more than double the prescriptions made in 2017.
