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 ...

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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 ...

9. The grant, which must be used by September 2024, will focus on opioid response work, including increasing public naloxone availability and educating communities on how to use it. Naloxone, ...

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 ...

A fisherman experiencing an overdose at sea was saved due to nearby fishing vessels carrying Narcan. The death of another fisherman from an overdose prompted the Atlantic Shellfish fleet to equip ...

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 ...