First responders will administer the medication to people in the throes of withdrawal. A new approach supporters contend will ...

U.S. drug deaths plunged in 2024, according to federal data published Wednesday, offering hope that public health measures ...

Rhetoric from the White House risks growing misconceptions of what harm reduction is and, significantly, what it is not.

Data from the CDC shows overdose deaths dropped significantly both in Oklahoma and across the country last year. It says there were an estimated 80,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2024 and 110,000 the year ...

Before the first responders have packed up their kit, he disappears around a corner ... fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin (two milligrams — or the equivalent of five to seven grains ...

Police and fire departments then started giving naloxone kits to first responders ... Although the CDC says prescription opioid and heroin abuse have decreased, the rise in illegal fentanyl ...

It would not include the $56 million annual grant through SAMHSA that distributes overdose-reversing kits and trains first ... don't decide to start doing heroin because they know they could ...

The province also recorded a 22 per cent increase in the number of naloxone kits that were shipped in B.C ... received addiction recovery services and 42 per cent received medical withdrawal ...

The opioid crisis in the U.S. shows signs of improvement, with a significant drop in fentanyl overdose deaths in 2024.