Richmond's new Office of Opioid and Substance use Response puts ‘harm reduction vending machines’ around the city. More plans to prevent, treat and recover are on the way.

Over the course of the next two months, the Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services is offering five free ...

MARYVILLE/GRANITE CITY/BELLEVILLE - Chestnut Health Systems will offer free virtual NARCAN training.At 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on ...

Two hero police officers have been credited with saving the lives of a man and woman in Stoke-on-Trent. PC Tara Millard and Sergeant Richard Callaghan used a special spray being rolled out for cops to ...

St. Louis County, Missouri, is escalating its efforts against the opioid epidemic with the introduction of Naloxone vending ...

Under a new state law, dorm resident advisers and housing staff must be trained to administer the overdose-reversing drugs.

A family in Sonoma County has found an innovative way to offer Narcan for free, using repurposed newspaper boxes to distribute the life-saving drug. Narcan, ...

The company will distribute its naloxone spray to more than 1,000 sites across Michigan through its dedicated portal.

The criminal justice system has been the federal government's main avenue for tackling drug addiction since President Richard Nixon effectively launched the "War on Drugs" in 1971. But drug overdose ...

Michigan is seeing a resurgence in overdose deaths associated with a potent fentanyl alteration meant for large animals. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid considered 10,000 times more potent than ...

Oklahoma's mental health agency plans to redistribute naloxone vending machines to new locations across the state, shifting more responsibilities to local partners.