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- Jun 9
CDC Dashboards Help Track Nonfatal Drug Overdoses
Overdose deaths have reached a devastating new 12-month record, with nearly 110,000 American lives lost from December 2021 to December...
- Apr 4
Considerations for Over-the-Counter Naloxone: Patient, Family, and Practitioner Perspectives
A new report from the Addiction Policy Forum provides feedback from patients, caregivers, and practitioners on the U.S. Food and Drug...
- Feb 17
Addiction Policy Forum endorses OTC Naloxone; Presents to the FDA
APF Executive Director Jessica Hulsey spoke before a Joint meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs and the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug...
- Dec 5, 2022
Medications for Sleep Disorders Associated With Increased Overdose Risk for Teens
A new study from researchers at Rutgers University found that teens and young adults treated for sleep disorders with benzodiazepines...
- Jun 1, 2022
New Overdose Data: 107,622 Overdose Deaths in 2021
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional data showing there were 107,622 overdose deaths in 2021,...
- Sep 2, 2020
Colliding Epidemics Highlight Need for More Resources
As cases of COVID-19 continue to spread across America, the effects of the pandemic on the opioid crisis are creating mounting concerns...
- Aug 31, 2020
International Overdose Awareness Day
Contact Your Member of Congress to Urge Them to Increase Resources for Naloxone As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the...
- Jul 28, 2020
Opioid Use Disorders and Opioid Overdose Epidemics
Improving Narcan availability is the best chance of saving lives from overdose.
- Apr 29, 2020
New Report on How Naloxone Saves Lives
New Report on How Naloxone Saves Lives
- Jan 30, 2020
Statement: Drug Overdose Deaths Decline for the First Time in Over a Decade
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed that 67,367 people died from a drug overdose in 2018.
- Dec 12, 2019
Suicide might be a root cause of more opioid overdoses than we thought
If all overdoses are considered “accidental” until proven otherwise, we may be missing higher rates of suicide and depression
- Aug 23, 2019
Naloxone Facts
Naloxone is now available in many places without a prescription. Naloxone is a temporary antidote for overdoses from opioid drugs Here...
- Aug 23, 2019
Naloxone Administration
Naloxone is now available in most places without a prescription. Naloxone is a temporary antidote for opioid drugs which include but are...
- Aug 23, 2019
After an Overdose
When someone has been revived with an opioid overdose reversal medicine they come out of it very scared, angry and confused. Here are...
- Jul 25, 2019
Ask a Counselor: Yes, Mixing Substances is Dangerous and Potentially Lethal
It is important to understand how substances, including prescribed medications, can interact with each other and other substances.
- Apr 25, 2019
Fentanyl-adulterated Cocaine: Strategies to Address the New Normal
Cocaine and fentanyl are proving to be a lethal combination.
- Apr 4, 2019
Geographic Distribution of Opioid-Related Mortality in the Third-Wave Opioid Epidemic
The opioid epidemic is a devastating public health crisis - over 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid.
- Jan 2, 2019
Naloxone Awareness Campaign
Naloxone Facts is an awareness campaign to help explain overdose reversal and how naloxone saves lives.
- Aug 10, 2018
Best Practices: Treating a Patient with an Opioid Overdose
When someone has been revived from an opioid overdose reversal medication, they come out of it very scared, angry and confused.
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