Two advisory committees to the US Food and Drug Administration have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone (also called Narcan), be made ...

The overdose crisis continues to worsen in the U.S., and overdose deaths reached an all-time high in 2021. Experts say that a simple drug — naloxone — is a key tool in preventing more deaths. But not ...

Naloxone - or Narcan - which reverses the effects of an overdose is coming to every Wake County school this year. WRAL Investigates' Grace Hayba explains how it works to fight back against fentanyl.

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 ...

MONROE COUNTY, N.Y. – Monroe County has expanded access to the overdose medication Naloxone. County leaders said the potentially lifesaving drug is now available at 605 locations across the area.

In Westchester County, drug overdose deaths totaled 168 in 2023, the latest county-level federal provisional data show. That’s down about 16% from the prior year. Rockland County drug deaths declined ...

Naloxone Texas has launched a campaign to get the overdose first-aid medication naloxone, known under the brand name Narcan, into the hands of college students. In Austin, Naloxone Texas is working ...

Students at Edina High School will be among the first in Minnesota entrusted with carrying and administering naloxone, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses.