CalRx is about making essential drugs like naloxone affordable and accessible for all — not the privileged few,” Newsom said. Naloxone is an easy-to-use nasal spray that reverses drug overdoses.

In Vancouver, locations participating in a take-home naloxone program covered an area where about 35% of opioid poisonings historically occurred. With geospatial analysis, researchers found that ...

In 2016, prison medical staff began carrying naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses and is often sold under the Narcan brand. Seven years later, it was made centrally available ...

A box containing two doses of naloxone nasal spray costs between $45 and $70 from regular pharmacies and online marketplaces. Opioid overdose deaths, which are caused by heroin, fentanyl and ...

As overdose deaths in Minnesota decline, Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota install free emergency naloxone. Overdose deaths dropped by about 24% in the U.S. in 2024, a decline nearly ...