Cooper University Health Care expanded its first-in-the-nation program to help patients who have suffered an opioid-related overdose. The Bupe FIRST (Field Initiation of ReScue Treatment by EMS) ...

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

Repurposed newsstands will now provide free doses of an overdose reversal drug to the Uptown neighborhood. The four newsstands are a part of the Chicago Department of Public Health’s ongoing efforts ...

First responders in Vancouver can now administer a life-saving medication used to treat opioid-use disorder, following the previous launch of a statewide pilot program in the fall. In October, the ...

Longview firefighter-paramedics could soon use new data analytics software to guide overdose responses and alternative transport decisions, as outlined in a City Council meeting video discu ...

Fentanyl overdose deaths have recently dropped. From April 2024 to March 2025, the CDC reported 43,000 synthetic opioid deaths, most of which are from fentanyl, down from nearly 70,000 in the previous ...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialist at the Area Port of San Luis saved the life of a young woman apparently in the midst of an opioid overdose. The incident occurred ...

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

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

PENN, NORTH AND WEST BALTIMORE EXPERIENCED ANOTHER MASS OVERDOSE. IT WAS THE SECOND IN JUST A MATTER OF MONTHS. ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY IN THE COMMUNITY DOES HAVE NARCAN ON HAND. AND THAT LIFESAVING ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The Food and Drug Administration will soon require prescription opioid manufacturers to include stronger language on the medications’ labels ...