Employers in New York risk civil lawsuits if they don’t properly train employees on administering first aid to colleagues who ...

Even before a new state law went into effect Jan. 1 requiring public libraries to have opioid overdose-reversing medication ...

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm ...

Cooper University Health Care expanded its first-in-the-nation program to help patients who have suffered an opioid-related overdose. The Bupe FIRST (Field Initiation of ReScue Treatment by EMS) ...

In March 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved naloxone as a nonprescription nasal spray to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialist at the Area Port of San Luis saved the life of a young woman apparently in the midst of an opioid overdose. The incident occurred ...

Fentanyl overdose deaths have recently dropped. From April 2024 to March 2025, the CDC reported 43,000 synthetic opioid deaths, most of which are from fentanyl, down from nearly 70,000 in the previous ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general in the first Trump administration, is a distinguished professor in pharmacy practice and public health at Purdue University. The ...

Suspected opioid overdoses seen in emergency departments across the U.S. increased by nearly 30 percent between July 2016 and September 2017, according to the CDC‘s March 6 Vital Signs report. The ...