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Jack Fishman
Jack Fishman is a pharmaceutical chemist and co-creator of naloxone.
Jack Fishman (September 30, 1930 – December 7, 2013), born Jacob Fiszman, was a Jewish-American pharmaceutical researcher from Kraków, Poland.[1] In 1961, along with Mozes J. Lewenstein, he developed the medication naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described as a "a life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose from opioids—including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioid medications."[2][1]