Narcan

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Proper noun

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Narcan

  1. (pharmacology) A marketed variety of naloxone.
    Coordinate terms: Evzio, Nyxoid
    • 2012, Peter L. Beilenson, Patrick A. McGuire, Tapping into The Wire, JHU Press, →ISBN:
      Administering Narcan has nothing to do with getting an addict clean and sober. It has everything to do with saving a life in a given emergency.

Verb

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Narcan (third-person singular simple present Narcans, present participle Narcanning, simple past and past participle Narcanned)

  1. (informal, transitive) To administer Narcan to a person who is overdosing.