Secondary students will learn how to administer naloxone and other tools available to them to help someone overdosing ...

Public health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found ...

New York State Senator Pete Harckham, in partnership with Westchester County Legislator Erika Pierce, hosted a naloxone training on Wednesday, Jan. 29, giving 25 people, including first responders and ...

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

The Hawaii Department of Health has launched online dashboards to track the millions of dollars the state expects to receive from national opioid lawsuit settlements.

As the founder of Selah, a Brooklyn-based Jewish community for people in recovery, Arielle Krule aims to train 2,000 people ...

Maryland’s overdose data dashboard shows Baltimore City — which in recent years has been experiencing the worst overdose crisis ever seen in a major American city — also saw a similarly significant ...

With drug-overdose deaths in Nebraska more than doubling in a few years, having Narcan and knowing how to use it can be a ...

Centers for Disease Control data shows 1,600 fewer people died of overdoses in New York from August of 2023 to August of 2024 ...

Gibson called for more funds to be allocated for mobile units to care for drug users in the Bronx; Naloxone training for residents and caregivers; and an ...

Indiana University’s Prevention Insights now offers free online naloxone (Narcan) and overdose response training to anyone ...

Massachusetts officials are making naloxone available at three state Department of Transportation facilities, as the state pushes to expand access to the overdose reversal drug. MassDOT said ...