A lime-green substance being sold as fentanyl has prompted an alert from Peterborough Public Health (PPH) on Monday. The substance is causing short-term, intense hallucinations, stated a release ...

At least not anytime soon. But we can prevent people from dying — simply by making sure everyone has barrier-free access to naloxone, a nasal spray medicine that reverses an opioid overdose.

What makes the fentanyl-tranq drug cocktail so dangerous is that xylazine — which is a sedative not an opioid — does not respond to the opioid antidote Narcan, which can save people who have ...

Doses of the opioid reversal medication naloxone are displayed for distribution by the Harm Reduction Action Center in August outside the nonprofit’s Denver offices. Last year, the center ...

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A study finds that the increased administration of naloxone by non-medical bystanders could be contributing to the 2023 decline in opioid overdose deaths. News outlets look at how that trend is ...

DENVER — On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the education and advocacy nonprofit handed out free naloxone kits ...

The federal funding distributed by the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services goes to the ONE Program, or "Opioid and Naloxone Education: A Statewide Approach to Opioid Harm ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- The St. Joseph County Department of Health announced new naloxone, or Narcan, boxes, will be placed at about two dozen locations throughout the county in the coming weeks.