Naloxone kits and automated external defibrillators (AEDs) will be installed in Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools (NLPS) secondary schools this year following provincial government mandates.

Officials held a press conference at Corazón Community Services in Cicero on Wednesday to announce the launch of the "Get ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only 14.2% of college students reported knowing how to administer naloxone. Just over 66% felt comfortable ...

Hundreds of people have been trained to give a life-saving injection if they find drug users who have overdosed in public ...

In 2022, the National Safety Council found that emergency medical services (EMS) teams responded to more than 42,000 ...

Every 11 minutes someone in America dies from an opioid overdose. But there is a solution, public health officials say: Carry naloxone, even if you don’t think you know anyone who uses opioids.

Naloxone (Narcan nasal spray) is an important first aid medicine that can quickly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

What's in the nurse's office at your child's school? Band aids? Defibrillators? EpiPens? What about Naloxone? Naloxone is a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, and ...

Ten years ago, Indiana took a bold and compassionate step in addressing the opioid crisis when it passed Aaron’s Law, a first-of-its-kind bill removing barriers to naloxone, the life-saving medication ...

The life-saving medicine naloxone was approved for nonprescription sale more than two years ago, but many rural Arkansas pharmacies still keep the overdose-reversal kit behind the counter. Of 15 ...

The Kane County Health Department is distributing a free medication, naloxone, to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, officials announced in a news release. The Kane County Coroner’s Office ...

The Wake County School Board is set to consider a proposal that would designate specific people on school campuses to be trained in administering naloxone in the event of an overdose emergency.