After getting high in the bathroom, Robinson crawled into his cramped room, where his heart stopped. Two minutes later, his roommate came back and saved his life with Narcan. Robinson had been using ...

He loved “The Three Stooges,” and used to spend hours on Saturdays watching cartoons with one of his nieces ... just feet ...

RELATED: 8 minutes, 19 seconds: Inside one California man’s dying body as Narcan molecules rush to reverse an overdose Yet that’s only part of the picture. Last year, calls about more than ...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio now has its first Narcan vending machine, and it’s free. City of San Antonio Chief Mental Health Officer Jessie Higgins noted some alarming statistics that could be ...

We’ve reported on naloxone, marketed as Narcan. You can now find it in drug stores, and some local health departments are distributing it for free. We recently reported on public health vending ...

Georgia Overdose Prevention director Andy Gish holds a kit to administer Naloxone through injection in a workshop for food service workers and other community members on Tuesday, Oct. 15 ...

Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. It is commonly used as a nasal spray but can also be administered as a shot. First responders, doctors and ...

More Bystanders Are Using Naloxone to Save Folks From Overdose By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- More bystanders are stepping in to administer ...

Rost asked, according to body camera footage. RELATED: Everywhere they go, people ask for Narcan. But overdoses are increasingly hard to stop. The man’s olive skin had a bluish tinge and whoever ...

A new study shows how the increased administration of naloxone by non-medical laypersons - or bystanders with little to no medical training - could be one factor contributing to this decline.

More than 20,000 potential overdose deaths were diverted due to access to naloxone kits provided through Ohio’s Project DAWN, which stands for “deaths avoided with naloxone,” the state’s ...