The Wright Center for Community Health has partnered with Contingency Management Innovations (CMI) to pilot NALCAM, a groundbreaking digital platform that motivates individuals to carry and stay ready ...

UNLV is giving away free doses of Narcan or Naloxone, a life saving medication that reverse the effects of an opioid overdose ...

The ruling clarified the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, which was passed in 2017 and offers legal protections for people ...

The Oceanside Police Department has joined the 'Naloxone Leave Behind Program' to help reduce overdose deaths, allowing ...

Edina High School students are now able to carry and administer naloxone, a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, ...

The state is seeing a 23% decline in fatal overdoses from January-September in 2025 compared to the same time period in 2024.

Scientists have known for decades that opioids relieve pain by binding to molecular switches in the brain called mu-opioid ...

Baltimore will install Naloxone boxes in Metro stations to combat overdoses, with plans to expand access to public transit ...

Professor Catriona Matheson, the ex-chair of a taskforce assigned to tackle drug deaths, says the plan was doomed from the ...

Dominic Cipriano couldn't stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was ...

Florida saw a dramatic 14% drop in drug overdose deaths in 2024, reaching pre-pandemic levels. Deaths from fentanyl, cocaine, ...

Starting substance use early—especially alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis—increases the likelihood of addiction later in life ( ...