Baltimore will see more residents learning how to use naloxone and stocking up on the overdose prevention drug as the city prepares to launch the Naloxone Neighbors campaign in the coming weeks. The ...

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The U.S. Surgeon General issued a rare national advisory Thursday urging more Americans to carry naloxone, a drug used to revive people overdosing on opioids. Naloxone is a medication designed to ...

I keep NARCAN (a brand of naloxone) in my backpack because I go to places where overdoses can occur. Places like sporting venues, airports and even department stores. Yes – all these locations have ...

One county in Tennessee is finding a new way to fight the opioid epidemic. Health officials in Carter County are teaching children as young as six years old how to use naloxone, the New York Times ...

Audrey's brother has been struggling with heroin addiction for most of her life. — -- Audrey Stepp is 9 years old, and for most of her life, her brother Sammy Stepp has been struggling with a ...

Overdose is the leading cause of death in postpartum women in Colorado and nationally. Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via In Colorado, from 2016 to 2020, 33 women who were pregnant or had ...

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Since December, small kiosks have popped up across Mesa County that have allowed people to anonymously access more than 1,200 free boxes of naloxone, the drug that reverses an opioid overdose. The ...

Naloxone boxes will be placed in Baltimore metro stations following multiple recent mass overdoses, Baltimore leaders announced Monday. Mayor Brandon Scott and other community advocates met Monday ...