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) ...
Pennsylvania’s new law requires EMS to report overdoses to a statewide system, expanding data to improve the state’s opioid ...
First responders in Minnesota’s capital city will have increased access to a tool to fight opioid addiction. St. Paul interim ...
First responders in Minnesota’s capital city will have increased access to a tool to fight opioid addiction. St. Paul interim ...
The young program aims to prevent all opioid overdoses, but for now, its leaders know that even one person breaking their addiction is a major victory.
Editor’s note: Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general in the first Trump administration, is a distinguished professor in pharmacy practice and public health at Purdue University. The ...
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 ...
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 ...