The American Heart Association’s first CPR update since 2020 adds adult choking guidance, naloxone instructions and a unified ...

What's in the nurse's office at your child's school? Band aids? Defibrillators? EpiPens? What about Naloxone? Naloxone is a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, and ...

“The guidelines also observe that one out of every 10 to 20 newborns each year needs help transitioning from the fluid-filled ...

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 ...

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 people ...

Opioid addiction doesn’t care how much money you make or where you live. It doesn’t respect ethnicity or skin color or ...

The U.S. Surgeon General issued a rare national advisory Thursday urging more Americans to carry naloxone, a drug used to revive people overdosing on opioids. Naloxone is a medication designed to ...

A new USC-led study provides the first nationwide picture of who knows about, carries, and uses naloxone to reverse deadly opioid overdoses. Mireille Jacobson, professor of gerontology at the USC ...

About 43% more opioid overdose victims are being given naloxone by bystanders before paramedics arrive Naloxone reverses an opioid overdose by blocking narcotic receptors in the body MONDAY, Oct. 14, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - According to the Shawnee County Health Department, almost 1,400 opioid overdoses were reported in 2023. To combat the crisis, PARS Topeka hosted a workshop teaching participants ...

The vending machines should be up and running by the end of this year and will be placed at strategic locations throughout ...

In the latest maneuver in the battle against opioid deaths in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that all Californians can now buy naloxone anti-overdose nasal spray directly the state for ...