Narcan

San Diego County could soon have a new weapon in its arsenal to help fight its growing problem with opioid addiction.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress

While spring break in South Florida is a time for people to let loose and have a good time, Luis Garcia says it’s a time for him to save lives.  He started the nonprofit USA Opioid Crisis Mortality Reduction with Narcan about four and half years ago.  The nonprofit’s goal is educating the public about Narcan, how it’s used...

A former firefighter distributed narcan in Fort Lauderdale in the wake of the mass overdoses among spring breakers. NBC 6’s Ryan Nelson reports

The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says a 10-month-old child was rushed to the hospital after overdosing on drugs just two days after Christmas. According to an incident report, Green Acres Fire Rescue used narcan to revive the young girl. Police say the mother of the child, 24-year-old Melissa Katz, admitted to smoking two “Oxys” with her boyfriend, 24-year-old Kaeden...

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staley said in a news release that deputies used Narcan to revive the man.

Singer Demi Lovato was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after an apparent drug overdose. The former Disney star has been open about her struggles with addiction and recently celebrated six years of sobriety. However, in her latest song “Sober” Lovato admitted that she had relapsed.

Health officials are investigating a sudden spike in non-fatal drug overdoses in the Philadelphia area over the weekend.

Cities like Baltimore are feeling the financial squeeze as they rely on naloxone to try and counteract rising overdose rates. Some hard-hit communities across the country are struggling to pay for dosages even at reduced prices. With more overdoses driven by synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil — so potent it’s used as an elephant tranquilizer — naloxone remains pricy...

A winner of the reality TV show “Survivor” bit a police officer after being found unconscious in the driver’s seat of her running parked car and had to be revived with the opioid overdose antidote drug Narcan, police said.

As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis.

Ninety-one people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related overdoses, but there’s a tool that can reverse the effects of an overdose that more and more law enforcement agencies and paramedics are now carrying with them as part of their standing operating protocol. It’s called Narcan, and here is what you need to know about what it is, how...

Narcan, a legal and life-saving drug that can reverse an overdose, is being used more often and in greater amounts as South Florida deals with a opiod epidemic.

Walgreens announced this week that it plans to stock all of its stores across the US with Narcan as the nation’s opioid epidemic reaches new levels.

A sheriff’s deputy used Narcan to revive a woman’s beloved pet after the dog ate her legally prescribed pain medication.

The battle against the opioid crisis in South Florida is intensifying weeks after a 10-year-old boy became the youngest victim of the epidemic.
The Miami Police Department released a video Tuesday warning kids and parents about the dangers of fentanyl and carfentanil.

Chief Rodolfo Llanes told reporters that Alton Banks must have encountered the drug during a one-hour period after he left a pool in the Overtown neighborhood and got home on June 23.

Naloxone, which is sold under the brand name Narcan, is an opioid antidote first approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration to combat overdoses in the early 1970s.