In 1971, almost half a century ago, emergency rooms started reversing opioid overdoses using a medicine called naloxone. It's generic today, and industry insiders told us it can cost as little as a ...

Naloxone is a lifesaving drug that can temporarily reverse an overdose from opioids. In North America, where an opioid crisis fuelled by fentanyl and oxycodone has contributed to falling life ...

After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths decreased 3% in 2023, the first annual decrease since 2018. A new ...

A woman was on top of the man, trying to shake him awake. The man's skin was discolored. He was gurgling. His pupils were shrunken to the size of a pinhead. "He had obvious signs he had used heroin ...

On March 29, the FDA approved the first ever naloxone product (Narcan) for over-the-counter (OTC), non-prescription use, citing a goal of increasing access and availability of naloxone as part of ...

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Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, is a powerful tool in the overdose crisis, allowing friends, loved ones and even bystanders a way to put a fatal overdose in reverse and bring back breathing.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vending machines throughout Denver have distributed more than 2,100 free boxes of the overdose reversal medication naloxone since they debuted in April.