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 ...

You're at a park in Yakima or outside a Lower Valley business when you witness a drug overdose. What do you do? It's not a far-fetched question. In 2024, there were 146 fatal drug overdoses in Yakima ...

The camera pans across a living room. There are lines of drugs on a coffee table. Panicked voices are heard in the background. "We need an ambulance. My friend won't wake up," one of the people says ...

Production issues with Pfizer’s injectable version of naloxone, a lifesaving overdose reversal drug, has caused a shortage of the drug, affecting healthcare providers across the country, The Boston ...

U.S. college students can recognize signs of an opioid overdose and want to help when they witness one. But many do not know how to reverse an overdose with the drug naloxone. Among surveyed ...

The Trump administration has proposed cutting a $56 million grant that teaches first responders how to use the lifesaving overdose reversal drug naloxone, which experts say could reverse progress the ...

Audrey's brother has been struggling with heroin addiction for most of her life. — -- Audrey Stepp is 9 years old, and for most of her life, her brother Sammy Stepp has been struggling with a ...

As a high school student, UCLA senior Maddie Ward knew fellow students who overdosed on fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. At the time, she didn't know what the drug was, but the tragic incidents ...

Narcan nasal spray can save someone who’s overdosing on an opioid drug such as oxycodone, heroin or fentanyl. Rachel Showalter The Bellingham Herald Over the past several years, Washington State ...