A family in Sonoma County has found an innovative way to offer Narcan for free, using repurposed newspaper boxes to distribute the life-saving drug. Narcan, ...

Outreach workers say the illicit drug supply has become more volatile with more synthetic compounds that can make overdose ...

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 ...

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

Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution ...

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

Rep. Kate Donaghue has a trick for always ensuring naloxone is on hand and ready to deploy if she encounters someone ...

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

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 ...

Where naloxone kits are available Healthcare facilities and first responders across the county have naloxone on hand to treat people in an opioid-related health crisis.

Naloxone, which also goes by the brand names Narcan or Evzio, is a drug that can actually reverse a heroin overdose and potentially help end the opioid epidemic.