And that experience led Koutoujian to have a similar free naloxone vending machine installed last month at the visitor's center of the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction in Billerica. It has been ...

Since being installed in December, the machine has been used 24 times, Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian said Thursday.

A corrections officer there demonstrated how visitors to the facility could use the self-serve machine to obtain free doses of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone. And when the machine ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — Drug Free Duval is offering free training to teach people how to use Narcan. Two times a month, the organization holds an online, virtual training educating participants on ...

Opioids are present in around 60% of drug-induced deaths in Australia. A medicine called naloxone is available for Australians to take home in case of an opioid overdose. Here's how it works ...

All health plans in Massachusetts must now cover the overdose reversal drugs without cost-sharing or prior authorization.

An entire generation of Black men — those born from 1951 through 1970 — has been dying from opioid overdoses in Cook County at a rate far out of proportion to other demographic groups. Heroin ...

Health officials attribute that drastic increase to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin that is a common adulterant in illegal drugs. Nationally, overdose deaths have ...

The trainings are offered on the second Wednesday and third Thursday of every month. January’s trainings take place on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at noon and Thursday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m.

Opioids are present in around 60% of drug-induced deaths in Australia. A medicine called naloxone is available for Australians to take home in case of opioid overdose. Here’s how it works ...