COLUMN Good Samaritan, There’s No Good Reason Not To Apply Naloxone By ALICE CEACAREANU • Hartwick College professor, Translational Biomedical Research Management Synthesized by the same chemist, Aspirin and heroin were destined to change the world: one for the better and one for the worst. Since 1897, they each keep counting human lives, one gives them back while the other takes them away. Heroin, an opioid, binds to the opioid receptors on the brain and remains in the body for…
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