Warmth leaves their body. Skin loses color. Breaths slow. And no matter how hard you try, they don't respond to shaking. Screaming. Pleading.

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

Two advisory committees to the FDA have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone, be made available over the counter. CNN Medical Analyst ...

According to a local treatment facility, overdose deaths in Kosciusko County have been on the rise in recent years, leading to the creation of a new Harm Reduction Strategic Plan for the area.

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 ...

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 ...

A Lacey firefighter saved a puppy exposed to fentanyl by giving it naloxone at the Nisqually Reservation Tuesday morning.

Earlier this year, the Polk County Health Department installed a harm reduction vending machine outside of its building. The ...

Opioids are dangerous substances, but overdoses can be reversed if prompt action is taken. Having naloxone around people who use opioids in whatever form can and does save lives. All people using such ...

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 ...

Naloxone has been distributed for free at all 18 Salt Lake County Library branches since 2018. The drug is distributed in two-dose “rescue kits.” Today, it’s also available at all eight ...