One morning this summer, Roxy was sleeping on the sidewalk in Kensington. The next minute, she said, “I thought I was in hell ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than half of youth improved after receiving a dose of naloxone by emergency medical services (EMS) after ...

Overdose prevention groups faced resistance from the food and beverage industry in Macon and Atlanta for years about carrying ...

A new study shows how the increased administration of naloxone by non-medical laypersons – or bystanders with little to no medical training – could be one factor contributing to this decline.

On a bustling Denver street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the education and advocacy nonprofit handed out free naloxone kits to ...

More bystanders are stepping in to administer naloxone to people who've overdosed on opioids, a new study shows. Nearly 25,000 OD patients received naloxone from an untrained bystander before ...

They’ve agreed to stock free doses of the medication naloxone, also known as Narcan, that quickly reverses most fentanyl-opioid overdoses. The list of participants joining the national naloxone ...

Naloxone, often sold under the brand name Narcan, is a drug that can reverse the immediate effects of an opioid drug overdose that’s administered by either injection or nasal spray. After the B ...

Several staff members at both school buildings in the Brockway Area School District now know how to administer Narcan, though ...

Five hundred doses of nasal naloxone will be distributed across campus early in the academic year by the province’s ...

More Bystanders Are Using Naloxone to Save Folks From Overdose By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- More bystanders are stepping in to administer ...