Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD Key Takeaways Naloxone is a fast-acting drug used to reverse opioid overdoses.Naltrexone helps reduce cravings and blocks the high from opioids or ...

Overdose deaths are a widespread problem North Carolinians have been struggling to combat in recent years. According to the state health department, American Indian/Indigenous and Black communities ...

The camera pans across a living room. There are lines of drugs on a coffee table. Panicked voices are heard in the background. "We need an ambulance. My friend won't wake up," one of the people says ...

You're at a park in Yakima or outside a Lower Valley business when you witness a drug overdose. What do you do? It's not a far-fetched question. In 2024, there were 146 fatal drug overdoses in Yakima ...

One year after Shepherds of Good of Hope opened a trailer for supervised injections near the ByWard Market, staff say they are accepting twice as many clients as they predicted. Medical professionals ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has made California the first state to offer a generic version of the overdose-reversal drug Narcan for public purchase through a state-run storefront, while the state’s health ...

School is back in session at the UQ-Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans, and on this January morning, just over 80 medical students pack into a classroom. Sedera Montgomery stands at the front, ...

Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of a mass overdose event in Baltimore Thursday. The city, as part of its ...

An addiction treatment center in the Valley is warning that access to Narcan is drying up, and that could mean dangerous ...

The Washington State Department of Health has unveiled an online tool designed to help residents find free naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, including those related to fentanyl ...

Hepatitis C cases have exploded by 326 percent since 2011 in Butler County, and with the continuing heroin epidemic the Board of Health is now offering free Narcan kits to family and friends of ...