In the midst of the nation’s ongoing, multi-decade opioid epidemic, there was a smidge of good news. In 2023, there were about 1,500 fewer overdose deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetic ...

Amid the worsening U.S. overdose crisis, experts say a simple drug — naloxone — is a key tool in preventing more deaths. But not enough people know about it, have access to it or actually carry it ...

Deborah Woolford walked to the front of Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore on Sunday and rolled up her sleeve to learn firsthand how to treat someone overdosing on opioids.

Many new first-year Penn Medicine students had never administered or carried Narcan nasal spray before attending the school’s third consecutive naloxone “boot camp.” Gillian Gehri, a clinical research ...

“You would have looked at my sons and never known,” says Bonnie Milas, MD. She’s speaking about the accidental opioid overdoses that killed her two adult sons in 2018 and 2019. She and other doctors ...

One morning, as I was walking up the ramp to the Kingston-Edmonds ferry, a call for a doctor came over the public address system. In the staging area, a person had been found unresponsive in their ...

TAUNTON — Taunton mother Susan Malloch-Taylor recounted getting a phone call that her heroin-addicted daughter overdosed and had to be revived with naloxone on the sidewalk of Charlton Memorial ...

In July 2022, Health Minister Mark Butler declared the Take Home Naloxone (THN) program's national rollout could prevent hundreds of deaths across the country. "I'm really pleased that we're going to ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - National Naloxone Awareness Day is a time to educate people on the uses of Narcan. Narcan is used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. There is no limit on usage, ...