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.

Richmond has installed its first city-run harm reduction vending machines, offering 24/7 access to free Narcan, fentanyl test ...

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.

For starters, they should use Purdue Pharma’s billions to make Narcan universally accessible. State and local governments are ...

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 ...

Since its pilot launch in April 2025, the vending machine outside the Stout Street Health Center has dispensed over 1,100 Naloxone kits. The machine is part of a broader effort to tackle the ...