February 24, 2012 — Providing education and access to naloxone, a drug that rapidly reverses the potentially fatal respiratory depression caused by opioids, may significantly reduce the rapidly ...

This is a statement we believe all students should be able to make by the time they graduate from high school. That’s why we — an undergraduate student and emergency physician — co-founded the ...

Emergency departments (EDs) offer critical opportunities for addressing the opioid crisis because they are on the front lines of health and are an underutilized point of contact with people at risk of ...

COLUMBIA - Education and conversation on how community members can help to prevent opioid overdose deaths continues Thursday at Boone Health. In partnership with the Boone County Overdose Response ...

Counties in Central Oregon are working on harm reduction methods to treat drug overdoses, as the use of a lifesaving antidote expands around the region. Naloxone is an antidote that can treat narcotic ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than half of youth improved after receiving a dose of naloxone by emergency medical services (EMS) after an emergency dispatch call, according to research presented on September ...

Over a million lives have been lost to drug overdoses since the start of the overdose crisis, with opioids accounting for 72% of these deaths. In 2023, the FDA approved naloxone (brand name Narcan) ...

If someone is overdosing on drugs, would you recognize what was happening and know what to do? Free training and access to the lifesaving overdose-reversing medication naloxone is available throughout ...

School districts on Long Island and statewide are stocking naloxone on-site in school buildings to have the opioid antidote at the ready because of the growing issue of abuse of the deadly drugs, ...

COLUMBIA - Columbia/Boone County Health and Human Services will explain how to recognize and stop an opioid overdose and how to administer naloxone, also known as Narcan, next week. The Save a Life: ...