The number of drug overdose deaths in 2019 climbed 4.6% compared to 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with a total of 70,980 deaths. More than 50,000 of those deaths involved opioids. Despite the attention and resources put forth to...
The death toll from opioid overdoses continues to rise, all while evidence-backed treatments and interventions go underused. To close this gap, addiction experts are turning their attention to critical touchpoints — such as emergency department visits following an...
You’re on your way to work when you come across a stranger lying on the sidewalk, struggling to breathe and apparently dying of an opioid overdose. One dose of the lifesaving drug naloxone could revive her, but you don’t have it on you. So you call 911. By...
Originally patented in 1961 by scientists searching for a treatment for constipation caused by chronic opioid use, naloxone quickly began being used for a markedly different purpose — as the premier antidote to opioid overdose. But it wasn’t until the last decade, as...