Funding cuts for fentanyl test strips raise concerns: "It doesn't make sense"
Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs for dangerous contaminants, including fentanyl and xylazine.
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Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs for dangerous contaminants, including fentanyl and xylazine.
Californians can now buy opioid reversal drugs directly from the state under a program aimed at making the life-saving medication less expensive and more accessible.
Members of the Biden White House celebrated the report but said there's still more work to be done to further reduce overdose deaths.
A study into Narcan could shape how first responders treat overdose patients.
In the ongoing fight against opioid addiction, Gov. Gavin Newson has signed a bill aimed at expanding access to methadone treatment in California.
Drug overdose deaths from opioids such as heroin and fentanyl have fallen from a peak in 2023.
Almost one in five survey responders had lost a family member or close friend to a drug overdose, researchers found.
California is partnering with a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company to purchase a generic version of Narcan, the most well-known version of naloxone that can save a person's life during an opioid overdose.
Fentanyl test strips used to be illegal in California. Now, state law requires them on community and state college campuses. We put fentanyl test strips to the test, and what we found could save someone you know.
Detectives say a Tracy man is now accused of murder in a fentanyl overdose death investigation from May 2023.
The growing calls for naloxone in schools are a response to increasing overdose deaths in young people.
Touching fentanyl or being near it won't cause a drug overdose, experts told CBS News.
The town hall meeting ended with a Narcan training and distribution. Narcan is used to reverse an opioid overdose and has been shown to save lives if administered in time.
A group of novel synthetic opioids emerging in illicit drugs in the United States may be more powerful than fentanyl, 1,000 times more potent than morphine, and may even require more doses of the medication naloxone to reverse an overdose, a new study suggests.
The drug has been found in an increasing number of overdoses and overdose deaths. Federal officials named it a "growing threat" in April.
There isn't a medication to reverse xylazine, an animal tranquilizer increasingly being found mixed in with fentanyl and other drugs.
In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids.
During the coronavirus pandemic, federal agencies changed rules to allow qualified clinicians to remotely prescribe buprenorphine, even to new patients.
