The Institute for Public Strategies will host a Naloxone/Narcan training event to prepare residents to recognize and respond ...

Narcan, which is used to quickly reduce the effects of a drug overdose, was deployed in both situations, the police report ...

In the midst of an opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, a decline in deaths was welcome news, ...

Giving prisoners access to naloxone would require almost no extra effort or expense—the infrastructure to do it already ...

According to a semiannual report from the Illinois Department of Public Health, over 3,000 Illinois residents died from drug ...

California State University Northridge (CSUN) and all California State Universities will embark on a significant new ...

Knowing this is the first step to helping patients at risk of becoming addicted and creating personalized pain management ...

New vending machines have been cropping up around the country as innovative public health tools to combat overdose deaths ...

The failure of the trial of the drug AZD4041 by pharma giant AstraZeneca, to combat opioid use disorder (OUD), highlights the ...

DEA reports a decrease in fentanyl contamination and overdose deaths, with a significant drop in potentially lethal pills.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones once promised that ‘people are not going to die,’ but the province hasn’t tried to figure out if ...

Ontario's opioid strategy, even with its new abstinence-based model for treatment, is outdated and does not serve the current ...