The Lake County Sheriff's Department appears to be joining the race toward an innovative life-saving tool, and we all should cheer it to the finish line. Sheriff John Buncich recently announced his ...

A local nonprofit organization has donated more than 2,000 boxes of Narcan – the brand name for naloxone, the medication used to treat narcotic overdose in an emergency – to the Clovis Unified ...

Opioids are some of the most widely used and misused drugs in the world. Opioids are central nervous system depressants, meaning they slow down brain activity and relax the muscles. They include the ...

Naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, is a medication used to rapidly reverse opioid overdoses. Other harm reduction supplies intended to keep people safe and alive include safe clean injection ...

Narcan — or naloxone to use its proper name — has been an invaluable tool in the fight against substance abuse for more than 50 years. As sad as it is, the grim truth is that drug overdoses not only ...