The Loudoun County School Board is considering letting students carry naloxone, a drug that can reverse the effects of opioids, on school grounds in its latest effort to address concerns about ...
Civilians armed with naloxone leaped into action more than 300 times in Monroe County to save lives with the opioid overdose reversal medication since 2021, state data show. Should you carry it?
Police and EMS in Westchester also reported using naloxone about 1,900 times during that same span. Health officials are urging still more New Yorkers to carry Narcan. And authorities are ...
Health care professionals, and the state of Tennessee, have encouraged people to carry Naloxone (known as Narcan), a medication that can reverse the effects of an overdose from opioids.
Loudoun County Schools are considering allowing students to carry Narcan, the overdose antidote. The district made headlines last fall when eight students overdosed at Park View High School over ...
It’s the drug that could save your child’s life – Narcan. Texas law requires many public schools (with students grades 6 through 12) to have Naloxone (or Narcan) on campus. This went into ...
But there is a solution, public health officials say: Carry naloxone, even if you don’t think you know anyone who uses opioids. Naloxone — commonly referred to by brand name Narcan — is a ...
Every day in Tennessee, three people die from an opioid-related overdose, according to Vanderbilt Medical Center. Health care professionals, and the state of Tennessee, have encouraged people to carry ...
Rosales works for ICON to provide Narcan to the community for free. She was tasked with seeing what stores carry Narcan and at what cost. “There’s a lot of barriers,” Rosales said.
And with the number of overdoses continuing to rise throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, Loudoun County Public Schools is considering allowing students aged 16 and older to carry Narcan ...