Health officials say the medication can reverse an opioid overdose in minutes — but only if it's administered in time.

San Mateo County is thinking "outside of the box" to reduce overdose deaths by installing purple boxes stocked with free ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Outside of First Call on Stateline Road in Kansas City, Missouri, there’s a display of yard stakes – one for each life lost to an overdose. “Last year, we had 443 yard stakes,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A man was suffering from a drug overdose Wednesday at the Food Lion off George Washington Highway in ...

On the South Plains College campus, a free naloxone training is happening Friday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m., hosted by StarCare.

Supplying Narcan at the library is a “no-brainer,” according to Ellen Riggsbee, the marketing and communications manager for ...

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 ...

A bill proposed by an Elgin high school student that will put supplies of opioid antagonists like Narcan in Illinois libraries passed the Illinois Senate unanimously. House Bill 1910, proposed by ...