Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

seeks to prevent overdoses by giving people who are using opioids a person to talk to on the phone while they’re administering the drug, so emergency services can be alerted if they overdose.

Since then, the company has added mental health first-aid training ... especially opioids such as heroin and fentanyl. A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that ...

Frank Wampol, vice president of safety and health at the BL Harbert International construction company, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is working on providing mental health first-aid training for ...

When it comes to disaster preparedness, Santa Cruz County is employing not only a recently established Office of Response, Recovery & Resilience, but also a community nonprofit called CERT that ...

As the founder of Selah, a Brooklyn-based Jewish community for people in recovery, Arielle Krule aims to train 2,000 people ...

Washington — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.

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 ...

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 program offers a free, 30-minute online course that walks you through what opioids are, how to recognize an overdose and ...