club administrator at Marshalltown High School. He resigned in As we continue to see a growing number of emergency vending machines and boxes carrying the life saving drug NARCAN and other supplies ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - Amid the ongoing opioid addiction crisis, the Montgomery County Health Department is taking steps to make it easier for people to access a life-saving resource. The ...

Making it easy to access naloxone kits to reverse the effects of opioid poisoning will help save lives, according to research published in theCanadian Medical Association Journal) that looks at the ...

In Vancouver, locations participating in a take-home naloxone program covered an area where about 35% of opioid poisonings historically occurred. With geospatial analysis, researchers found that ...

KENT COUNTY, Mich. — To help curb opioid overdoses, EMS workers in Kent County will be able to distribute NARCAN kits throughout the community. The program, called Leave Behind NARCAN, was launched by ...

BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. (WBNG) - UHS Hospitals are now providing free Narcan kits and training staff to respond to suspected overdoses, according to Paul Faulk, UHS’s director of behavioral health ...

Concerned parents of incoming college freshmen are adding the life-saving nasal spray to back-to-school lists this year — along with condoms, Plan B and more modern must-haves that might have been ...

Ten years ago, Indiana took a bold and compassionate step in addressing the opioid crisis when it passed Aaron’s Law, a first-of-its-kind bill removing barriers to naloxone, the life-saving medication ...

A new study from University of Toronto Engineering researchers points to practical strategies to prevent deaths from opioid poisoning by optimizing the distribution of naloxone kits. In a paper ...

Placing publicly accessible naloxone kits at transit stations using the optimization-driven strategy and ensuring blanket placement at take-home naloxone program locations, which distribute free ...