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 ...

About 200 restaurants across D.C. have already ordered overdose response kits, which include the opioid overdose reversal ...

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.

AstraZeneca has ended work on an opioid use disorder (OUD) drug after the orexin 1 receptor antagonist demonstrated a ...

E. 38th St. This Narcan vending machine, which was unveiled this past summer by Mayor Jacob Frey, can be a way for those who do not want to call 911 or other services to stop an opioid overdose from ...