"Biden will invest $10 billion to provide local communities with the tools needed to prevent overdoses and respond to emergencies emanating from this crisis.

Ensure local communities have a sufficient supply of overdose prevention drugs. Naloxone (also known as Narcan) is a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose, making it a critical tool in the fight to save lives. Biden will expand grants to states for the purchase of Naloxone to be distributed to local community actors called upon to respond to overdoses, including first responders, public health providers, and the staff at homeless shelters and public libraries. "

Source: Joe Biden, "The Biden Plan to End the Opioid Crisis," joebiden.com (accessed Apr. 27, 2020)

Yes. Government bureaucrats should never be allowed to stand in the way of individuals and their health choices."

Source: Communication from the Jorgensen campaign to ProCon.org on Aug. 26, 2020

"The Administration has taken steps to expand the supply of lifesaving naloxone to first responders nationwide.

• There has been a 484 percent increase in naloxone dispensed monthly since President Trump took office.
• Naloxone prescriptions jumped 27 percent immediately following the Surgeon General’s advisory recommending that more Americans carry it.
• The VA alone dispensed 121,448 naloxone prescriptions, used to help 321 veterans during an overdose."

Source: White House, "President Donald J. Trump Is Fighting to End the Opioid Crisis That Has Devastated Too Many American Communities," whitehouse.gov, Apr. 24, 2020