The Hawkins County Budget Committee voted to buy two new vehicles for Emergency Medical Services using opioid abatement funds ...

New York, NY – On February 11, 2025 at the annual Education & Training Awards breakfast on February 11, 2025, the NYC Building & Construction Industry Safety Fund announced an important program ...

Accidental drug overdose deaths in Connecticut in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year to the lowest number since 2016, the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced on Tuesday. It's ...

Thanks to grant dollars from Volusia County's opioid abatement funds, local nonprofits have been able to roll out new ...

Before the hearing, Oz hadn’t spoken much about pressing health policy issues since he was nominated for the crucial post.

An inmate at the Oklahoma County Detention Center is dead after being found unresponsive early Monday morning.Oklahoma County ...

Making it easy to access naloxone kits to reverse the effects of opioid poisoning will help save lives, according to research ...

Illinois Math and Science Academy senior Jordan Henry and Illinois State Rep. Anna Moeller worked together to draft the legislation. Both joined WGN’s Evening News at 6 p.m. Wednesday to further ...

It takes no more than a couple of doses of Narcan to reverse a typical fentanyl overdose. A new type of synthetic fentanyl ...

The young boy was suffering an apparent medical episode when first responders ... Workers from the volunteer ambulance service Hatzolah administered Narcan to the unconscious, unresponsive boy ...

“We know that that’s the only thing if someone is fallen over, dying from a fentanyl overdose — the only thing that will help is naloxone,” said George Massengill, who testified in favor of Re ...

The initiative by Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and Gabriel’s Giving Tree aims to make Narcan an essential resource not just in medical settings, but in everyday public ...