What Are Naloxone and Naltrexone? Naloxone is a drug that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Anyone can give this very fast-acting medication, as a shot or nasal spray. It can ...

In an attempt to make naloxone more accessible amid the massive human toll of the opioid crisis, the FDA recently approved over-the-counter naloxone. Naloxone is the one solution that has remained ...

WASHINGTON — Since NARCAN (naloxone) has been approved for over-the-counter sales, people continue to ask us about the medication that can save the life of someone overdosing on opioids. Our VERIFY ...

Over the past 20 years, opioid-related deaths rose 850% in the United States, reflecting the surge in addictions to narcotic painkillers and the influx of fentanyl and other potent synthetic opioids.

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 ...

Kansas got the first of several free naloxone vending machines this week. The machines were installed in Reno County and downtown Wichita; Douglas County already had one. “If you feel like this is ...

Over a million lives have been lost to drug overdoses since the start of the overdose crisis, with opioids accounting for 72% of these deaths. In 2023, the FDA approved naloxone (brand name Narcan) ...

At a time when a record number of Americans have died from drug overdoses — with the vast majority involving opioids — the recent approval of two new forms of naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid ...