At the end of last year, the Mobile County Health Department’s (MCHD) Overdose Prevention Program worked with LTS Health on a project to supply four healthcare ...

The Oshkosh Area School District announced the expansion of its emergency preparedness resources, with the installation of ...

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

After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something ...

California had over 7,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2022. Nearly 87% of them were linked to fentanyl. Overdose deaths ...

In Lawrence, Butler, Armstrong, Indiana, and Clarion counties, the anti-overdose drug naloxone is widely available for free in public spaces such as schools, hospitals, factories and libraries.

Ripon College and Fond du Lac County Health Department worked in collaboration with the non-profit organization Clinton ...

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.

Emergency overdose reversal kits have been ... Mary Bono and the Mothers for Awareness and Prevention of Drug Abuse. It also said although naloxone reverses the effects, a person experiencing ...

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

she prefers more funding and distribution of already proven and less expensive interventions like naloxone. She also supports the creation of “overdose prevention centers” — places where ...