Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tasha Withrow, a person in recovery and co-founder of harm reduction organization Project Mayday, refills a ...

Note: Some overdose deaths involved multiple drugs. By Maia Szalavitz Graphics by Sara Chodosh and Aileen Clarke Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy.

Naloxone can reverse the effects of opioid overdose and is being used in hospitals and by emergency responders outside the hospital to save the lives of young people poisoned by opioids.

Tasha Withrow, a co-founder of harm reduction organization Project Mayday, said Narcan wasn't something she ever had access to when she was using opioids. A person in recovery, she now helps place ...

Today, reach into one of his containers and you may find something entirely different and free of charge: Naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug. Naloxone distribution containers have been ...

But people taking the medication may also be at a lower risk of opioid overdose. Prescriptions for the drug were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with both diabetes and opioid use ...

People prescribed semaglutide, which is sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, were roughly one-third to one-half as likely to overdose on opioids during a one-year follow-up as people ...

Finally, mercifully, the country’s astronomical drug overdose rate appears to be flattening out — even declining. This spring, national data began to show that overdose death rates were ...

The food safety watchdog has issued new guidance over caffeine in food supplements after a man died miscalculating the amount he was meant to use. Personal trainer Tom Mansfield, from Colwyn Bay ...

This National Patient Safety Alert, issued by the NHS England National Patient Safety Team and endorsed by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives and Royal ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Drug overdose deaths in Ohio have fallen by nearly one-third in the past year, preliminary state data shows, marking a shocking reversal of a lethal surge in overdoses since the ...

More than 100,000 overdose-related fatalities occur each year in the United States, so nobody doubts that the street drug supply is as lethal as ever. But for the first time in decades ...