St. Louis County, Missouri, is escalating its efforts against the opioid epidemic with the introduction of Naloxone vending ...

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the naloxone distribution program would gut programs that train and equip ...

A Canadian study finds that as fentanyl use began increasing in 2014, opioid agonist treatment duration with methadone or ...

Richmond's new Office of Opioid and Substance use Response puts ‘harm reduction vending machines’ around the city. More plans to prevent, treat and recover are on the way.

Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of ...

Naloxone can stop an opioid overdose in its tracks. The opioid crisis has been front and center this week thanks to President Donald Trump's visit to New Hampshire, a state that has been ...

Naloxone is an “opioid antagonist,” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which means it blocks chemicals in the opioid family (such as heroin, oxycodone, morphine and fentanyl ...

Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution ...

The criminal justice system has been the federal government's main avenue for tackling drug addiction since President Richard Nixon effectively launched the "War on Drugs" in 1971. But drug overdose ...

Naloxone, which was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1971, works by blocking opioids from acting on receptors in the brain and reverses the depressed breathing caused by ...

Just two police forces in the country refuse to give their officers naloxone. Big Issue reporting has sparked politicians to ...

The 21217 ZIP code, which encompasses the Penn North neighborhood where Thursday’s overdoses took place, was by far the ...