A large purple box now stands in the entrance hallway of SELF Discovery, a three-phase intensive outpatient program provider for drug and alcohol abuse. Tall with an openable face, the box is ...

Ketamine is related to the recreational drug phencyclidine (PCP). Studies have found that low doses of ketamine can quickly ...

News reporter for Orlando Weekly, with a focus on state and local government, workers' rights, and housing issues. Previously ...

Your head hurts. Maybe you were staring at your computer or phone too long. Or you skipped breakfast, didn’t sleep well, or got stressed fighting traffic. But now that it’s here, what can you do to ...

One pill can kill” was the overriding message of a fentanyl poisoning awareness discussion panel held in Greenville on ...

As part of their access initiative, UT Tyler now has Narcan — the nasal spray version of naloxone ... As the regional hub for drug prevention and resources, the East Texas Council on Alcoholism ...

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 ...

Naloxone, a nasal spray that can reverse the adverse ... but more than one dose might be required. The drug isn’t dangerous if given to someone who isn’t overdosing on an opioid.

Lummi Nation nurse Kim Long holds up a box of Kloxxado, or naloxone ... for a prescription to obtain the drug. Often the nasal sprays come in a 4-mg dose, but the state also allows for newer ...

We will give them a dose of Narcan ... and bring them out of it,” Sapp said. Narcan is a nasal spray or injection that ...

Earlier this year we acknowledged a bit of promising news: For the first time in five years, drug-related deaths ... has barrier-free access to naloxone, a nasal spray medicine that reverses ...