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Groups trying to reduce overdose deaths and the spread of infectious diseases are replacing chips and soda in vending ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a 10-mg dose of Roxybond (Protega Pharmaceuticals), an opioid ...

Inside the boxes, people can find the drug Narcan and other information about addiction resources. Narcan is often used to reverse an opioid overdose caused by drugs like fentanyl. Below are the f ...

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 ...

The primary outcome was cumulative postoperative opioid consumption (measured in intravenous morphine milligram equivalent [MME] per day) over a period of 72 hours. Secondary outcomes included VAS ...

An overview of federal and state laws and legal issues impacting physicians, non-physician practitioners (NPPs), and health ...

In Spokane County, a single person died of a fentanyl-related overdose in 2018, according to official records. Each year ...

THEY’RE CALLED NALOXONE WALL UNITS, AND THEY’RE A BIT DIFFERENT THAN FREE NARCAN VENDING MACHINES, LIKE THE ONE BEING USED AT THE FORSYTH COUNTY DETENTION CENTER. THEY HOLD ABOUT 50 UNITS OF ...

In 2023, more than 80,000 people in the United States died of opioid overdoses. An overdose occurs when a person takes too much of an opioid (morphine, heroin, fentanyl, etc.) or a combination of ...

The next minute, she said, “I thought I was in hell.” A police officer, she soon learned, had dosed her with the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. The lifesaving medication blocks the potentially ...

The FDA has approved the first abuse-deterrent, immediate-release, 10 mg opioid tablet for pain management, signing off on another dosage of Protega Pharmaceuticals’ Roxybond. The nod covers those ...