Researchers have found that key brain cells may be damaged in overdose, and OUD itself resembles near-drowning victims. Serial neurological evaluations and neurorehab could help.

A year prior, the Biden administration gave different reasons for the start of the overdose deaths decline, describing its work to distribute more of the opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone, ...

At El Moreno Minimarket, calling an ambulance used to be an “everyday thing,” store manager Bryan Bobadilla said. Most days, market staff would call for help after finding someone in distress near the ...

Supply shock' resulting from a crackdown on China's distribution of fentanyl and chemicals needed to make it means less of the deadly synthetic opioid on the streets, a new report suggests.

Pennsylvania’s new law requires EMS to report overdoses to a statewide system, expanding data to improve the state’s opioid ...

It has the power to save lives by targeting opioid overdoses — something that kills more than 140 Americans every day. And now Narcan, the nasal spray that can pull a drug user back from an overdose, ...

First responders in Minnesota’s capital city will have increased access to a tool to fight opioid addiction. St. Paul interim ...

CASTAIC, Calif. (CNS) -- Two inmates at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic are alive today after being saved by doses of Narcan that were given to them by other inmates under a new ...

The emergency opioid overdose treatment Naloxone is now available to all University of South Carolina students, faculty and staff, no questions asked. Naloxone, better known by the brand-name Narcan, ...

Progress in reducing the number of overdose deaths has been made throughout Pennsylvania over the past year, but officials ...

Dearborn reports a 36% decrease in overdoses and 38% fewer deaths in 2025 due to targeted public health strategies.