Syracuse, NY -- Onondaga County’s health department will mail a box of free Narcan to anyone locally who asks. In fact, the ...
Amid Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s Kensington crackdown, some drug users accuse police of using naloxone improperly — by ...
On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the ...
Instead of handing out cake in honor of his 37th birthday, she's handing out free pizza with Narcan training in drug ...
A new study found more non-medical personnel are using the opioid overdose antidote. What that means is, people in the ...
Anchorage schools have seen enough drug overdoses in recent years that district officials are instituting trainings and stocking supplies to deal with the problem. Doses of naloxone, a medication that ...
After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose ...
A study finds that the increased administration of naloxone by non-medical bystanders could be contributing to the 2023 decline in opioid overdose deaths. News outlets look at how that trend is ...
"Unfortunately, the study found there is more work to be done since only 3.4% of EMS activations involving naloxone received it from non-medical bystanders," said Gage. "In a perfect world, this ...
Naloxone use . Use of the lifesaving drug naloxone is growing, but not fast enough. Naloxone is used to reverse opioid drug ...
MaineHealth EMS in the Farmington area has five ambulance bases in Carrabassett Valley, Rangeley, Farmington, Phillips and ...