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FDA Approves Narcan To Be Sold Over The Counter This week, the FDA approved selling Narcan — the leading nasal spray version of naloxone — without the prescription, making it the first opioid treatment drug sold available over the counter.Celebrating a huge move in increasing access to the life-saving drug, advocates have long-sought to make Narcan more widely available. Related | Chi Ossé and Keith Powers Want Narcan Kits in Every BarWith the power to reverse overdoses from heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone when correctly administered, Narcan has been instrumental in harm reduction and death prevention. Fatal overdose rates reached the highest total in two decades in 2021 with nearly 2,700 drug related overdose deaths across the city and more than 100,000 deaths a year nationwide. Distributed primarily to people most likely to be around overdoses, advocates have equipped and trained drug users and their relatives on how to administer Naloxone. Police and first responders have also been equipped with the drug. In New York City, activists have worked to equip bars and restaurants with Narcan kits and training as part of the Narcan Behind Every Bar program, codified into law this year by Councilman Ossé’s Intro 56 bill.With prescription restrictions removed, Narcan could become more widely accessible and administered. “While Narcan provides a practical solution to a pervasive problem, making it available over the counter demonstrates our humanity," Chuck Ingoglia, president and CEO for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, said in a statement Wednesday. "Narcan represents a second chance. By giving people a second chance, we also give them an opportunity to enter treatment, if they so choose."Here’s everything you’ll need to know:​How will the NARCAN over-the-counter work?Narcan will be available in pharmacies over-the-counter by late summer, according to Emergent BioSolutions. Other brands of naloxone and injectable forms will not be available for the time being but could be soon, with the FDA now requiring manufacturers of generic naloxone to submit applications to switch their drugs to be sold over the counter. Emergent BioSolutions has not yet announced the price of the drug, which can cost around $130 to $140 for a kit that includes two doses, as opposed to generic brands which can cost between $20 and $40 per dose.FDA Commissioner Robert Califf urged Emergent to make the drug available “at an affordable price.” Narcan's over-the-counter status could also affect insurance coverage for the previously prescribed drug. In New York, the multi-step nasal spray costs about $85 and the single step $150 for uninsured patients. Does the FDA’s OTC ruling make Naloxone more accessible? The ruling would make Narcan more widely-attainable and could open the door for places without pharmacies, like convenience stores, supermarkets and online retailers to stock and sell the drug, making it more widely accessible to people not actively seeking services or in recovery.It also removes barriers for people concerned about getting naloxone at pharmacies because it will alert their insurers. Removing the prescription can also help ease the stigma for people picking up the drug. How can you get Narcan in New York?Not all pharmacies currently carry Narcan. In New York State, pharmacies can dispense naloxone with non-patient specific prescriptions, meaning you do not need to have your own prescription to obtain naloxone. In New York City, there is no age limit to obtain naloxone, but pharmacists may refuse to give it to people under age 16. They may also ask to see an ID for record-keeping, but ID is not required to obtain naloxone. Pharmacists should provide a short training and written instructions on administering the easy-to-use drug. The New York State Department of Health also offers training sessions and videos on best practices on harm reduction. Photo via Getty/ UCG https://www.papermag.com/fda-otc-narcan-2659709746.html

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Lucinda Chua's 'YIAN' Takes Flight Who do I run to?YIAN begins with departure. A curvature in time subtle enough to invite imbalance and open enough to feel like embrace, the first question of Lucinda Chua’s debut album does not ask where or when of its listener, but instead: “Who?”“I like the idea of the album being a loop that starts with a question and ends with a question," Chua tells PAPER by way of introduction. "I think going into the album, I was looking for answers, looking for something very tangible and concrete that would give me a sense of having conquered it. But the deeper I went into the album, the more I realized I don’t know anything.”If Chua’s central question is who, YIAN is her response. An intuitive player, Chua took up piano by ear at age three. Learning by listening, rather than reading sheet music, Chua’s musical practice is personal and corporeal. “Music is something that I felt so much in my body from a young age,” Chua explains. She departed from the classical world to session work and rock music in her early teens, eventually going on to support acts like FKA Twigs during her Magdalene tour. Chua’s own discography has been steadily expanding from symphonic and solo cello compositions to her first EPs Antidotes 1 & 2. Where Antidotes distills emotional vignettes — like snowflakes caught on a finger and melting into memory —YIAN descends in all directions around its listeners, a flurry in time.On YIAN, Chua constructs landscapes of herself: an ocean, an avalanche, the echo of the wind under-wing. Named for Chua’s middle name in Mandarin, YIAN translates to "swallow," a songbird whose reliable migration — its own paradox —connotes positive change, the dawn of spring. “I never fully understood it. It always felt quite alien to me,” Chua says of her Mandarin name, Siew Yian. “It translates to 'swallow,' which is a songbird that migrates between two places, and I really resonated with that as a symbol or metaphor, because I’ve felt very in between the Eastern world and the Western world growing up with two cultures in my family. I guess the feeling of the in-between is something that I’ve always felt. I explore that in the record.”With influences in ambient and classical music, Chua’s dioramic memory conjures pastorals alongside impressionism, as if Harold Budd’s “Sea, Swallow Me” undertowed Vaughn Williams’ “The Lark Ascending.” The motion of Chua’s swallow is two-fold, soaring beyond itself and surrendering, swallowed, to a whole. Chua reclaims the narrative of exploration. We encounter Chua at the center of a mutable landscape: her own diasporic identity, having been born to a Chinese-Malaysian father and a white British mother. Putting sound to her internal dissonance, YIAN exercises curiosity in contradiction. “I really like the fine line between something that's really pleasurable and really uncomfortable in the music, the dissonance and then the resolution. I think as a listener it can feel really gratifying to be on your toes but then to have that moment of release.”For listeners, YIAN is a permeable space, stripped to essentials — reverberated keys, mantric melodies and no drums —and unmoored by temporality. The place is the person from which time flows, inviting mutual recognition and collective healing. “There’s so much empathy within the listener that it can awaken certain things” Chua says of her own relationship to music. “It’s like I’m watching or listening to someone else feel those emotions, and it’s reminding me of my capacity to feel.” YIAN is contemplative and hopeful. Journeying towards an inaccessible home, Chua glides across the emotional currents of a crystalline landscape. Distorted strings gain glitchy permanence on “Grief Piece;” cello played sul ponticello on "Autumn Leaves Don’t Come" oscillates across its own borderland as Chua’s lyrics linger more as thoughts than melodies. “I’ve been living in the sky too long/ Waiting for someone to take me home,” Chua harks, a swallow.Arriving just after the spring equinox, YIAN is in perpetual transformation: Paper roses bloom across ancestral stones in “Echo,” and Chua’s outstretched orchid palm, lan hua zhang, decorates YIAN’s music videos. “We say 'like an English rose' to specify a certain type of beauty,” Chua explains. “But it’s interesting that the rose is indigenous to Asia. The rose originated in China and was brought over to the UK. I love the idea of the rose being a symbol of the diaspora.”Pulling visual cues from Chua’s exploration of classical Chinese dance, YIAN is informed by fragmentation and reformation. Lost under the Song Dynasty, much of the cultural practice of Chinese classical dance has been carried through memory. Through careful study of ancient Chinese cave paintings, scriptures and texts incorporated into martial arts and Russian ballet, Chinese classical dance was reborn, much like the album, which Chua describes as “a returning or remembering.” Just as there is a sense of recollection throughout YIAN, there is a counter-parallel tide of loss. “There is a feeling of falling,” I note, “between the rose petals, the snow, “Autumn Leaves Don’t Come,” without really a clear direction or arrival.”“It’s quite elemental. There’s an emotional weather,” Chua adds. “Snow at first can feel magical, but it can be tiring, you know, because it’s like you’re carving out your path or you’re finding your way and leaving these marks behind.” In every revolution toward a whole, Chua diverges. Chords dissolve and swell in the final moments of YIAN''s closing song “Something Other Than Years,” and resolve in a second question: “When all I feel/ Is all I know/ Show me how to live this life/ Something other than years."Sung in rounds alongside the album’s only feature (by yeule, a fellow child of the diaspora) Chua’s curiosity turns this time to the listener, prompting a response and inviting departure anew. Photos by Milo Van Giap https://www.papermag.com/lucinda-chua-yian-2659661268.html

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Grimes Changes Her Daughter's Name to 'Y' Grimes and Elon Musk changed their daughter's name. Why, you ask? The answer lies in the question.After sharing a rare photo, Grimes announced on Twitter that her one-year-old baby is now going by "Y" or "Why?" or simply, "?." None — (@) A symbol for “curiosity, the eternal question, …and such,” Exa Dark Sideræ's new name has raised questions for many. If you were wondering if the government will recognize the name “?,” they won’t. Grimes answered that one for you. Related | Grimes Calls the Grammys 'So Irrelevant' After Charli XCX SnubThe accompanying photo also leaves much up to the imagination. Showing both Grimes and Y in red onesies with matching bleached yellow-green hair, Grimes captioned the rare sighting of her newest child with their initials "Y" and "C."Grimes and Musk quietly welcomed their second child via surrogate in December 2021, announcing the birth of Exa in February, later dropping "Musk" from her last name. The younger sister to X Æ A-12, or “X" for short, as Grimes shared in a Vanity Fair cover story, the two make up the axes on a graph.X Æ A-12 also underwent an early name change to meet with California guidelines, changing his legal name to X AE A-XII to comply with the law.As for Y, Grimes first noted the nickname for her then-newborn baby in the same Vanity Fair cover story, where she also fondly referred to her co-parent Elon Musk as E. And according to her caption, Grimes is going by C, the first initial of her given name, Claire Elise Boucher.Since their split in September 2021, the on-again, off-again couple have co-parented X and Y, and Musk confirmed in his infamous Joe Rogan interview that Grimes is largely in charge of the names. Photo courtesy of Joe Schildhorn/BFA https://www.papermag.com/grimes-daughter-name-2659660609.html

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Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro Confirm Engagement in 'BESO' Music Video Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro are collaborating for life. In the music video for “BESO,” a song off of their joint EP RR, the couple announced their engagement, because what better way to make it official than in an official video.Capturing the peaceful, private moments of their relationship that seems larger than life, the video takes viewers along on the sold-out tours, studio sessions, shaving in the hot tub and many, many, many besos throughout the couple’s last four years together. Related | Watch TikTok Trainspotter Francis Bourgeois Meet RosalíaThe montage music video ends with a tear-filled clip of Rosalía whispering “Oh my god,” flashing a diamond ring, valued at $183,000 according to Harpers Bazaar, on her left ring finger and leaning over to kiss Alejandro and declare “te amo.” The two confirmed their engagement, dropped RR and made us feel inescapably single all at once.The love-filled EP celebrates love, promises and…vampires in three songs “BESO,” “VAMPIRO” and “PROMESA.” Sharing the album on Instagram, Rosalía and Rauw wrote in Spanish in a joint caption, “After more than 3 years together here are 3 songs made with all the love in the world. I hope you enjoy this little piece of us.” See on Instagram The couple first made their relationship official in 2021 after privately dating in the years prior. The early privacy of their relationship has since given way to the constant stream of lip-locked selfies celebrated in the "BESO" music video, making up for years of no PDA. With lyrics of "BESO" translating to "Being away from you is hell/being close to you is my peace," the two have a lifetime of peace ahead of them. You can watch the video below.Photo courtesy of Manny Hernandez/WireImage/Getty Images https://www.papermag.com/rosalia-rauw-alejandro-2659652891.html

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Jennifer Coolidge Crowned 2023 Vegan Queen PETA has crowned Jennifer Coolidge 2023's Vegan Queen... whatever that means. Coolidge announced the honor in a Blingee-meets-Lisa-Frank-inspired Instagram graphic. Explaining her personal history with PETA, Jennifer Coolidge thanked the animal rights advocacy organization for the honor with a string of every animal emoji, rainbow hearts and a kiss. See on Instagram “You were the first animal advocacy group that I was lucky enough to discover,” she said in the caption. “When I first learned about you and the work you do on behalf of animals globally- I knew I had found my people. You fearlessly expose the harsh realities of animal cruelty and prove just how powerful animal lovers can be when they organize and take action.” Related | Jennifer Coolidge Makes Unexpected Gay Porn CameoIn a press release announcing the award, PETA honored Coolidge’s “commitment to animal liberation that’s even stronger than her 'bend and snap.'"Coolidge’s involvement with the organization dates back to the 2003 issue of PETA’s cruelty-free shopping guide, which sported Coolidge on the cover.Her dedication to our furry friends is well-documented, whether it's photoshopping her rescue dogs Chewbacca and Bagpipes into her Instagram posts, working with cruelty-free makeup brands like e.l.f Beauty or declining a hot dog commercial unless the brand added a vegan hot dog option. She may want a hot dog real bad, but not that bad. Her unforgettable role as Sherri Ann Cabot — high femme lesbian lover of Jane Lynch and proud dog-mother of well-manicured poodle Rhapsody in White — brought high-profile attention to the world of pet competitions (which PETA, historically does not support due to the unethical breeding practices and cosmetic procedures surrounding them). And, of course, her career goal is to play a dolphin. Related | Jennifer Coolidge Wants to Play a Dolphin“Jennifer Coolidge’s huge heart for animals is rivaled only by the size of her talent,” says PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange. “PETA is crowning her our ‘Vegan Queen’ this year for using every opportunity she gets to encourage everyone to keep cruelty to animals out of their cuisine, closets and cosmetics.”The responsibilities and rights afforded the Vegan Queen were not disclosed, but the reign of Jennifer Coolidge, Vegan Queen has only just begun. Photo courtesy of BFA/ Kyle Goldberg https://www.papermag.com/jennifer-coolidge-peta-2659614190.html

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Jamie Lee Curtis Calls for Genderless Oscar Categories Jamie Lee Curtis took home her first Oscar this weekend for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in award show-favorite Everything Everywhere All At Once. Curtis took the opportunity to discuss the limiting binaries that exist in the prestigious awards show. On the post-show carpet, Curtis was asked by Tanisha Laverne Grant of Black In America how she felt to be honored among the 65 other women nominated for Academy Awards across all categories that evening. Related | 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Sweeps the OscarsNoting the “surreal” experience and how “proud” she was of her win, Curtis called for more women to be nominated in all categories, alluding to the persevering male domination of unisex categories like Best Director, for which there were no female directors represented in 2023.Then, reframing the question, Curtis spoke to the limitations of gendered categories themselves, asking, “How do you include everyone when there are binary choices? Which is very difficult as the mother of a trans daughter.” In 2018, A Fantastic Woman became the first film in Oscars history with a transgender storyline and an openly trans lead to win, with frontwoman Daniela Vega celebrating the Academy Award for best foreign-language film. But the actor-specific roles remain dominated by cis actors, skewing the scales away from trans, nonbinary and gender-fluid actors already underrepresented in the industry. Meanwhile, cis actors are still cast in trans stories and straight actors are still performing LGBTQ+ characters.While Hilary Swank admitted she wouldn’t do Boys Don’t Cry today, the jury is out on whether the Academy’s insular nomination committee would have nominated a trans actor in the same role. Earlier this year, nonbinary The Crown actor Emma Corrin issued a similar call for gender-neutral awards recognitions. “It’s about everyone being able to feel acknowledged and represented,” Corrin told BBC. The Los Angeles Times echoed the call in December in an editorial ahead of awards season. In February, nonbinary actor Justin David Sullivan withdrew from Tony consideration for their role in & Juliet, in which they play a nonbinary character, abstaining until the American Theater Wing makes “meaningful changes” to include nonbinary and trans talent. With the movement towards gender-neutral awards picking up steam, Curtis noted the marginalization of anyone non-white and non-male in the Academy, closing her remarks with a call for “just fucking more women, anywhere, anytime, all at once.” Photo courtesy of Kyle Goldberg/BFA https://www.papermag.com/jamie-lee-curtis-gender-neutral-2659590206.html

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Hugh Grant Gives Ashley Graham an Awkward Oscars Interview This year's Oscars showdown did not come in the form of physical altercation, but instead took the British approach of passive aggression. Hugh Grant is getting called out for his awkward interview with Ashley Graham on the Oscars red carpet.The esteemed actor did not play along with Graham’s lines of questioning, offering up blunt responses to the model’s interview for ABC’s “Countdown to the Oscars.” Related | Jimmy Kimmel Won't Let The Oscars Slap DieTheir conversation started out shaky when Graham asked Grant his favorite thing about attending the Oscars and was met with a pregnant pause and a vague response. “It's fascinating,” Grant trailed off, “the whole of humanity is here, it’s Vanity Fair.” Graham shifted gears, presumably unaware of Grant's reference of the 1800s William Thackeray novel, instead asking him which one of the nominees he was rooting for, to which he responded “no one in particular.” With the Oscars off the table for conversation, Graham shifted to fashion, asking Grant what he was wearing. “Just my suit,” he replied with his deadpan British charm, confirming, upon further questioning from Graham, that he could not remember who made it. “My tailor,” he guessed. In a last ditch effort, Graham asked the actor to speak to his role in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery where he had an expository cameo as Blanc’s partner, Philip. “Well, I’m barely in it. I’m in it for about three seconds,” Grant responded. “Well yeah, but you still showed up and had fun right?” Graham prompted, to which Grant replied, “Almost,” bringing the one-minute-nineteen-second interview that felt like a lifetime to a close. Related | Yup, Hugh Grant and Daniel Craig Are Married in 'Glass Onion'Grant re-emerged to present the nominees for Best Production Design alongside his Four Weddings and a Funeral co-star, Andie MacDowell, and brought a slight smile to his stiff upper lip by calling himself “basically a scrotum” for not having used moisturizer throughout his life. Whether his remarks to Graham were more real than the overly enthusiastic celebrities who walked the carpet last night or just playing rude is still under heavy debate by the courts of Twitter.com. None — (@) Graham is taking it on the chin, telling CNN at the Vanity Fair afterparty, “My mother always told me to kill ‘em with kindness.”Photo courtesy of John Salangsang/BFA https://www.papermag.com/hugh-grant-ashley-graham-oscars-2659589354.html

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Hugh Grant Gives Ashley Graham an Awkward Oscars Interview This year's Oscars showdown did not come in the form of physical altercation, but instead took the British approach of passive aggression. Hugh Grant is getting called out for his awkward interview with Ashley Graham on the Oscars red carpet.The esteemed actor did not play along with Graham’s lines of questioning, offering up blunt responses to the model’s interview for ABC’s “Countdown to the Oscars.” Related | Jimmy Kimmel Won't Let The Oscars Slap DieTheir conversation started out shaky when Graham asked Grant his favorite thing about attending the Oscars and was met with a pregnant pause and a vague response. “It's fascinating,” Grant trailed off, “the whole of humanity is here, it’s Vanity Fair.” Graham shifted gears, presumably unaware of Grant's reference of the 1800s William Thackeray novel, instead asking him which one of the nominees he was rooting for, to which he responded “no one in particular.” With the Oscars off the table for conversation, Graham shifted to fashion, asking Grant what he was wearing. “Just my suit,” he replied with his deadpan British charm, confirming, upon further questioning from Graham, that he could not remember who made it. “My tailor,” he guessed. In a last ditch effort, Graham asked the actor to speak to his role in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery where he had an expository cameo as Blanc’s partner, Philip. “Well, I’m barely in it. I’m in it for about three seconds,” Grant responded. “Well yeah, but you still showed up and had fun right?” Graham prompted, to which Grant replied, “Almost,” bringing the one-minute-nineteen-second interview that felt like a lifetime to a close. Related | Yup, Hugh Grant and Daniel Craig Are Married in 'Glass Onion'Grant re-emerged to present the nominees for Best Production Design alongside his Four Weddings and a Funeral co-star, Andie MacDowell, and brought a slight smile to his stiff upper lip by calling himself “basically a scrotum” for not having used moisturizer throughout his life. Whether his remarks to Graham were more real than the overly enthusiastic celebrities who walked the carpet last night or just playing rude is still under heavy debate by the courts of Twitter.com. None — (@) Graham is taking it on the chin, telling CNN at the Vanity Fair afterparty, “My mother always told me to kill ‘em with kindness.”Photo courtesy of John Salangsang/BFA https://www.papermag.com/hugh-grant-ashley-graham-2659589354.html