I was having a discussion with some coworkers, and the topic of Narcan got brought up as a potential solution to drug overdoses. My initial reaction was quite literally, “What in the world is Narcan?”

Although fentanyl has become a leading drug for overdoses, it is a legal pharmaceutical drug. It’s a synthetic opioid for severe pain and is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.