People in Bradford are being encouraged to use special medical kits to treat addicts who overdose in public places. Each kit ...

People in Bradford are being encouraged to use special medical kits to treat addicts who overdose in public places. Each kit ...

The ONEbox program is an initiative designed to provide life-saving tools and instructions to the public in case of an ...

Last year, an estimated 341 people in Orange County died of accidental drug overdose, down from 490 in 2023 and the county’s ...

The decline in New Jersey drug overdose deaths follows a nationwide trend, as most states are seeing a drop in deaths ...

The nation’s drug overdose crisis is finally beginning to slow down. After it reached a peak during the years of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been substantial declines in overdose deaths over the ...

Researcher Benjamin Leung carries a naloxone kit in his backpack in case of encountering an opioid overdose — but he admits ...

Making it easy to access naloxone kits to reverse the effects of opioid poisoning will help save lives, according to research published in theCanadian Medical Association Journal) that looks at ...

For years, first responders have reversed fentanyl and other opioid overdoses with naloxone. Commonly called by the brand name Narcan, the reversal agent has been used by Omaha Fire Department ...

prosecutor Eric Zahnd told media Wednesday. "The people who supply those drugs can and will be held accountable when people overdose." Related Overdose deaths decline in U.S. driven by fewer ...

Nonfatal opioid overdose rates declined in Alaska in 2024, a potentially hopeful sign for a state that had a record number of overdose deaths the year before, health officials said. The number of ...