We know overdose risk goes up upon release. But the day someone leaves prison isn’t the day they take on that risk; it’s the ...

"Our policies are saving lives,” Biden officials say about the drop in drug overdose deaths. Experts say that may not be the ...

Health officials warn that extremely cold weather could render lifesaving overdose reversal drug Narcan ineffective.

TRAVERSE CITY — Narcan — a potentially life-saving spray in cases of opioid overdose — can freeze in cold temperatures. The ...

Giving prisoners access to naloxone would require almost no extra effort or expense—the infrastructure to do it already ...

Young Australians are taking the opioid reversal drug naloxone with them on nights out. We've unpacked what it is and how it ...

Community members can obtain free doses of an opioid overdose-reversing medication and learn how to use it thanks to the East ...

Students at the University of Colorado Boulder are spreading drug safety awareness after six students overdosed while ...

New vending machines have been cropping up around the country as innovative public health tools to combat overdose deaths ...

The ‘miracle drug’ is thought to be one factor behind the recent decline in overdoses in North America, and could save more people if it was better understood ...

Faced with the risk of fentanyl poisoning — a highly lethal opioid — in the general population, Urgences-santé is in favour ...