A free Naloxone training is planned on Tuesday to teach the public to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and ...

But now comes a moment of truth for the overdose-reversal medication: Will increased access help to save lives? And more immediately, can everyone who wants to buy naloxone at a pharmacy afford it? In ...

Colorado is coming closer to universal access to overdose-reversing medication as residents snap up an over-the-counter ...

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Friday that CalRx will drive down the cost of naloxone as the state program reverses ...

The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, issued a public health advisory on Thursday urging more Americans to carry and learn to use the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Naloxone, which is ...

Two advisory committees to the US Food and Drug Administration have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone (also called Narcan), be made ...

Share on Pinterest The opioid-antidote drug Narcan will be sold over-the-counter at major U.S. drug stores starting in September. Scott Olson/Getty Images Naloxone, more commonly known by its brand ...

Though many Illinois libraries already have supplies of medications that can reverse opioid overdoses, a new state law will ...

People in Denver now have more access to naloxone, the medicine that reverses an opioid overdose. The Denver Police Department and nonprofit The Naloxone Project installed three vending machines that ...

What you need to know: As the state tracks nearly 400,000 overdoses reversed through the Naloxone Distribution Project, the ...