On a Saturday afternoon last year, more than a dozen teenagers gathered in Denver to learn about naloxone, a medicinal nasal spray that can reverse an overdose of the synthetic drug fentanyl and other ...

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 ...

You're at a park in Yakima or outside a Lower Valley business when you witness a drug overdose. What do you do? It's not a far-fetched question. In 2024, there were 146 fatal drug overdoses in Yakima ...

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 ...

Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is one of the most important drugs in the United States' fight against the opioid crisis. It reverses an opioid overdose nearly instantly, restarting ...

OLD IN CRITICAL CONDITION. ALL 50 STATES TOOK PART IN THE SAVE A LIFE DAY TODAY AS PART OF THE EVENT, FREE NARCAN WAS HANDED OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WLKY MEGAN MATTHEWS WENT TO ONE OF THE METRO ...

Shortly after noon on Friday, exactly 1,167 Analy High School students made history by taking part in what is now officially the largest number of people to be trained, at one time, to use Narcan to ...

Public school officials statewide administered medication to reverse an opioid overdose 32 times during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Who received the ...

Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of a mass overdose event in Baltimore Thursday. The city, as part of its ...