Despite it being hot during the summer, the Polk County Health Department said this vending machine is temperature-controlled ...

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

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

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 is often available through non-profits and community organizations for free, in part because they can purchase Narcan at a discounted rate, or by distributing less-costly injectable forms ...

An Ambulance medic holds used doses of naloxone after medics revived a man in his 40's who was found unresponsive from an opioid overdose in the Boston suburb of Salem, Mass., Aug. 9, 2017.

SCPD and the Purple Rock Project shared a healing strategy and Narcan training to curb opioid deaths at a Long Island block ...

Across the country, there are programs in place to make sure citizens have access to naloxone (sold under the brand name Narcan). Not only could you attend one of the free certification trainings ...

Narcan will soon be available in an over-the-counter spray, but there are still unanswered questions on how to make it widely accessible and affordable by those most at-risk of opioid overdose, a ...

FDA approves Narcan to be sold over-the-counter 00:27 (CNN) -- The first over-the-counter naloxone, a drug used to reverse opioid overdose, will be available in retail stores and online as soon as ...

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

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