As the number of opioid overdose deaths continues to surge across the United States, some experts stress the urgency of providing the addiction treatment medication buprenorphine to drug users as soon as possible, on the scene of an overdose. Not only does buprenorphine help people with an opioid use disorder resist cravings and stay away from drugs, but it also protects patients from the increasingly likely possibility that they will end up using an illicit drug laced with fentanyl and die. Studies have found that overdose patients have at least a 1 in 10 chance of dying from a subsequent ove…