If you've ever wondered how you can help in a life-or-death situation involving an opioid overdose, there’s a free opportunity for you to learn how to make a difference.

Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, is a powerful tool in the overdose crisis, allowing friends, loved ones and even bystanders a way to put a fatal overdose in reverse and bring back breathing.

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

The group had assembled for a V’Ahavta Community Narcan Training, named for the ... that we can actually reverse an overdose.” Statistics on opioid addiction among New York City’s Jewish ...

spray — commonly known as the antidote for an opioid overdose — adding it to list of “necessary” Health II skills, like CPR and first-aid training. On Jan. 7, the Fall River Public School ...

Sitting with about a dozen young Jewish professionals last week, 32-year-old Brooklynite Arielle Krule was passionately leading a discussion about two seemingly unrelated topics that are close to her ...