An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The Metro Nashville Health Department plans to add three more machines across Davidson County within 90 days, targeting areas ...

A new tool in the fight against Colorado’s overdose crisis is being installed outside three Denver Police Department ...

April, with the project’s leaders anticipating having to refill it about once per month. During the machine’s first weeks, ...

On Saturday, mothers, fathers and other loved ones gathered to spread awareness about fentanyl overdoses in Tampa Bay.

Public health experts are worried by the proposed cuts to naloxone programs. One called the overdose antidote a “silver ...

Naloxone, also sold under the brand name Narcan, is available in injectable and nasal spray form. It is an opioid antagonist that attaches to receptors in the brain, reversing and blocking the ...

One point of concern shared by local recovery advocates is the possible loss of state and federal grants that pay for Narcan ...

Emily’s Hope has installed 2 new naloxone boxes have been installed, one at Prairie Lakes Hospital and one at the Watertown Regional Library. Each month, the distribution boxes are stocked with kits ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to plague the United States, Narcan and other treatments that administer naloxone have ...

"An overdose is an overdose, no matter who it is. It shouldn't have generation, color, nothing should matter... All we should ...