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

A batch of illicit drugs that was mixed with fentanyl and other substances may have been the cause of a mass overdose in.

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 ...

Two Vacaville police officers were treated with naloxone and taken to an area hospital Tuesday night after they showed signs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...