Savanna, aimed at expanding access to fentanyl testing strips across Illinois — and later turned into law — has now gone into effect. Getting its start as SB 3350, a bill sponsored by McCombie and ...

Fentanyl overdose looms large on the docket heading into the Texas Legislature’s 89th regular session. One Texas lawmaker is ...

Dozens of bills that could change policing in Indianapolis and beyond are being proposed this year. Fentanyl test strips, changing the statute of limitations on sex offenses and, as promised, clamping ...

The Tulsa Health Department is providing harm reduction kits in Tulsa County to support individuals struggling with substance ...

Mostly seen on the East Coast in places like Philadelphia, xylazine was created to be used in veterinary offices as a ...

The kits include naloxone, a life-saving drug that can reverse opioid overdoses, and messages of hope from elementary school ...

Jackson County Public Health said it has worked distributing free Narcan, or Naloxone, throughout the area. Now, it is taking it one step further: Narcan dispensers.

This machine gives our community access to life saving materials, and with that, it gives us all a second chance,” said ACASA.

The study will identify 36 locations with a high concentration of overdoses and install interventions like free naloxone at ...

Centers for Disease Control data shows 1,600 fewer people died of overdoses in New York from August of 2023 to August of 2024 ...

The research over the next two years will be used to help agencies across the country best intervene in the ongoing substance abuse crisis.