Overwhelmed by the opioid crisis, public health agencies across the US and Canada are increasingly training the public to use the overdose antidote drug naloxone. Now, with more potent narcotics ...

For the first time since 2020, the American Heart Association has updated its CPR guidelines, introducing several key changes. The new guidance includes updated recommendations for responding to ...

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'Carrying naloxone can be just as important as learning CPR,' says Philadelphia's assistant deputy commissioner of the fire department. Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley demonstrates the ...

CBS News California Investigates obtained data from the LAFD that show 24,503 of the 25,461 patients who received naloxone ...

What if I told you there’s an easy way to save someone who’s overdosing? It’s true! Quickly giving naloxone can reverse ...

Waterloo Regional Police have equipped police officers with Narcan nasal spray, which gives them the ability to deliver ...

In the 1990s and early 2000s, as heart disease became a major public health concern, millions of Americans voluntarily trained to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR. In fact, the American ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island nonprofit will now include naloxone training in all its CPR classes. The Staten Island Heart Society (SIHS) announced that since Jan. 1 it added naloxone ...

WASHINGTON — The US surgeon general issued an advisory Thursday recommending that more Americans carry the opioid overdose-reversing drug, naloxone. The drug, sold under the brand name Narcan (among ...

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