Narcan
Definition
A brand-name prescription and over-the-counter nasal spray containing naloxone, an opioid antagonist used specifically to reverse the potentially fatal effects of an opioid overdose.
A colloquial catch-all term often used to describe any form of life-saving intervention or 'emergency reset' button in modern drug safety discourse.
Examples
With Narcan now available over the counter, the local pharmacy has become the unlikely front line in the battle against the opioid crisis, proving that sometimes the ultimate hack is just keeping someone breathing.
If our political discourse had a Narcan dispenser, we might actually be able to reverse the toxicity levels of a standard Twitter reply thread before the system crashes completely.
The grant funding for Narcan programs is being cut, because logic apparently dictates that if we simply stop training people to save lives, the inconvenient statistics about overdose rates might finally start looking better.