Narcan

Overdose deaths are significantly rising in many states including West Virginia, but some are now adopting new laws that require those with opioid addictions to receive a reversal agent like Narcan alongside their pain medication prescription. This tactic would serve as a way to help save lives, should a patient overdose.

On a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a life-saving overdose antidote to residents painfully familiar with the ravages of America’s…

Paramedics and police are already in the hotel room when Kyle Simpson walks in.“What happened?” he asks.A 37-year-old man in the room is barely…

In September the West Virginia State Board of Education approved a new policy that will allow schools across the state to stock intranasal naloxone or…

The West Virginia Board of Education approved a policy last week allowing county school systems across the state to start stocking Naloxone—a medicine…

A law that goes into effect on May 27 allows police officers and those close to addicts to carry the opioid overdose antidote drug Naloxone. While law…