Narcan

English

Proper noun

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

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.