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Trump budget draft ends Narcan program and other addiction measures.

The opioid overdose reversal medication commercially known as Narcan saves hundreds of thousands of lives a year and is routinely praised by public health experts for contributing to the continuing drop in opioid-related deaths. But the Trump administration plans to terminate a $56 million annual grant program that distributes doses and trains emergency responders in communities across the country to administer them, according to a draft budget proposal.

In the document, which outlines details of the drastic reorganization and shrinking planned for the Department of Health and Human Services, the grant is among many addiction prevention and treatment programs to be zeroed out.

States and local governments have other resources for obtaining doses of Narcan, which is also known by its generic name, naloxone. One of th

The Nissan Sakura 2025 is the best-selling electric car in Japan—driver assistance, auto parking, fast charging, bidirectional power, and acres of charm. The killer stat: It only costs $17,000. [Wired article inside]

Nissan Sakura 2025 Review: Price, Availability, Specs | WIRED

Electric cars are not yet big in Japan, making up about 3 percent of sales. However, Japan’s government has announced plans to increase the percentage of EVs and PHEVs in passenger car sales to up to 30 percent by 2030. For now, the Sakura, despite its diminutive length of 3,395 mm (about 11 feet), happens to be Japan’s best-selling electric car.

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Sadly, so far Nissan has shown no desire to sell the car outside Japan, although a few secondhand examples have ended up in right-hand drive markets such as New Zealand.