Narcan

The Fairfax County, Virginia, school board approved a plan Thursday night to provide staff and students with access to fentanyl testing strips and to place Narcan in all classrooms.…

As lawmakers in Sacramento debate solutions to the fentanyl crisis, public health students at Santa Clara University unveiled their own unique approach on Tuesday: a free on-campus vending machine that dispenses canisters of the…

A free vending machine that dispenses the overdose-reversal drug naloxone was unveiled this week at Santa Clara University, the first such campus resource in the Bay Area, school officials said.The machine at the school’s Benson Memorial…

GROTON, CT - MARCH 23: A box of the opioid antidote Naloxone, also known as Narcan, sits on display ... during a family addiction support group on March 23, 2016 in Groton, CT. The drug is used to revive people suffering from heroin…

Arlington County's Department of Human Services said they're noticing a decrease in overdoses, in part because of free Narcan training being offered to the public. There’s…

A few weeks ago, I got a shocking text from a friend. Two students at her daughter’s middle school had overdosed. Let me repeat that: middle school. A teacher found them in the bathroom, unconscious. Suspecting the worst, an administrator…

Two women were arrested after police in Virginia said they used Narcan to revive a toddler. On Friday morning officers from the Manassas Park Police Department responded to a call regarding an unresponsive 2-year-old boy, police…

A nasal spray that reverses fentanyl overdoses in minutes is being touted as a potential antidote to America's deadly epidemic.Naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan, works by blocking the synthetic opioid from attaching to receptors in…

Washington, D.C., is making Narcan and fentanyl test strips available at vending machines in areas with high overdose rates as part of a pilot program, the city announced on Tuesday. Six vending machines will offer the opioid overdose…

BALTIMORE — As soon as this summer, people will be able to purchase the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan as easily as they can buy Tylenol and Benadryl, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it last week to…