Clay County Community Paramedicine is offering free training to teach people how to use Narcan. Narcan, the brand name for Naloxone, is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose. There will ...

Two inmates at the Marcy Correctional Facility were resuscitated by correctional officers after recently being found unconscious, according to the New York State Correctional Officer and Police ...

Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer who was attacked during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, cursed out Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath ...

Naloxone can be administered when someone is experiencing an overdose to reverse the effects and often save a life.

Since the opioid epidemic was declared an emergency in 2017, it has claimed more than 450,000 lives, but local drug and alcohol specialists are working to fight the crisis daily. The ...

Twenty staff members at a Northern New York prison are recovering after being sent to the hospital for possible exposure to an unknown substance.

Every month Steuben County releases a report reviewing recorded overdoses. These numbers were difficult for the public to find, but on Thursday, the county announced ...

More than a dozen staff from Upstate Correctional were hospitalized Wednesday evening after they encountered an unknown substance.

Emergency room admissions for people overdosing in Palm Beach County decreased by 19% as the county launches a new online dashboard and prepares for a "state-of-the-art Crisis Center for Mental Health ...

Officers at Marcy Correctional Facility performed CPR on two inmates and administered multiple doses of Narcan after ...

Officers at Marcy Correctional Facility performed CPR and administered Narcan to two inmates in January after they were found unresponsive. On Tuesday, Jan. 14, an ...

In November, the state of Michigan announced a nearly 6% decline in the number of deaths due to overdose, five times faster than the national decline.