Every day, more than 11 North Carolinians die from a drug overdose, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS). Opioids are a major contributing factor to this ...

Tasha Withrow, a co-founder of harm reduction organization Project Mayday, said Narcan wasn't something she ever had access to when she was using opioids. A person in recovery, she now helps place ...

The residential Southwest Area held a NARCAN administration training for students Tuesday afternoon at Willard Residential ...

Even though fentanyl-linked fatal overdoses are soaring among young adults, a new survey of American college students found that just 1 in 7 knew how to administer the overdose antidote drug naloxone.

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 ...

LOCKPORT – A Cambria woman who was incoherent and screaming because of an overdose of hydrocodone was revived Friday morning by a state trooper using Naloxone, an intranasal injection, after an ...

As overdose deaths in Minnesota decline, Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota install free emergency naloxone. Overdose deaths dropped by about 24% in the U.S. in 2024, a decline nearly ...

An alarming spike in overdoses in Saskatoon has some front-line workers calling on the Saskatchewan government to expand its Take Home Naloxone program to include the more user-friendly nasal spray, ...

Marin County is acknowledging International Overdose Awareness Day on Saturday by installing additional naloxone vending machines throughout the county that dispense a medication that rapidly reverses ...