America has a problem.

It's a drug problem.

It's mostly an opioid problem.

The situation right now with the drug supply in America is that fentanyl is showing up in

just about everything you can imagine.

The opioid problem is so bad users might be taking them when they're trying to take other drugs.

And so people are overdosing of fentanyl who were taking meth, who were taking cocaine,

who were taking pills, who were just out for a party night on the weekend.

And if you don't know you're taking opioids, it gets a lot easier to overdose.

Over 100,000 people have died from drug overdoses in the past 12 months, the vast majority

from opiates, including synthetic drugs like fentanyl.

But there is a quick and easy drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.

It's about to be available over the counter.

It's ahead on today's Plank.

I'm Julie Werner.

I'm a Health and Medicine reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

Tell us, Julie, what is up with Narcan?

So last week, the FDA approved this medication that people use to reverse an overdose for

over the counter use, which means that pretty soon you can walk into a retail pharmacy and

just pick up this medication along with your vitamins and tile in all and any other

number of things you might grab at the pharmacy.

And that's a big deal?

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