The rollout of a potentially life-saving antidote across the North East has already resulted in the reversal of 19 overdoses.
The city of Brunswick, in collaboration with the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services, will install a ...
The funds for the one-year pilot program will be used from the roughly $801,000 the county received in July as part of its ...
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold ...
News On 6 is looking into the State of Oklahoma's decision to remove all of its free naloxone—better known as Narcan—vending machines. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse ...
Broome County is normalizing harm reduction and making it easier to access life saving medication with the placement of ...
At six locations in four west central Indiana counties on Thursday, the goal was to distribute 1,000 free doses of naloxone, a nasal spray used for immediate treatment of opioid overdoses. In Vigo ...
With National Recovery Month coming to a close, local agencies and community organizations gathered Thursday to discuss how access to naloxone is one of the keys to addressing the opioid crisis.In a ...
The federal funds will support substance use prevention and treatment efforts, workforce capacity building and access to ...
Volunteers handed out free naloxone at four locations in Carbon and Schuylkill counties on Thursday for Save A Life Day, as ...
Most of the cases investigated involved fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid now dominant in Philadelphia’s illicit drug ...
It reverses opioid overdoses by blocking opioids from connecting to brain receptors and restoring normal breathing.