The Health Care Authority announced Tuesday that it would stock all Income Support Division offices with naloxone and train staff members to use the life-saving drug. Naloxone, also known under th ...

FENTRESS COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Professional football player, Jeffery Simmons, will be featured on billboards in Jamestown to raise awareness and destigmatize Naloxone, an opioid overdose ...

For years, first responders have reversed fentanyl and other opioid overdoses with naloxone. Commonly called by the brand name Narcan, the reversal agent has been used by Omaha Fire Department ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Barbados is hoping to strengthen its relations with Togo as officials from the African country are on a week-long visit to the island. “The purpose of it also this ...

When Kimberly found him unresponsive, she frantically searched her home for naloxone, a medicine that reverses an overdose and prevents death. In her panic, she couldn’t find it. It wasn’t ...

A storage room at the Mokami Status of Women Council is filled with shampoo, deodorants, pads, and at the back a small section of snorting kits, clean injection supplies and naloxone kits.

Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late Tuesday to consider the latest version of its plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin, a ...

There’s been a 32.79% decline in drug overdose deaths in West Virginia, surpassing the national average decrease, according to year-over-year data from September 2023 to August 2024 from the ...

A line of cars looped through the Pitt County Council on Aging parking lot last week where safety advocates stood at the ready to help residents keep medication and personal information out of the ...

Hamilton police revived a man suffering from an overdose Tuesday — only to arrest him moments later. Police said in a news release the 33-year-old was unconscious when officers responded to a ...

“I saw there was so much in him that he needed to let out, but he didn’t know where to start or who to start talking to,” Alice Mutambuki said as she recalled a man who used to visit Peel’s safe drug ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under warm strobe lights and pulsing house beats, a recent festival in Mexico City offered more than music, food and booze. Amidst the usual festival fare, a booth provided ...