“The FDA remains focused on broadening access to opioid overdose reversal agents, including naloxone and nalmefene,” Robert Califf, the agency’s commissioner, said in a statement.

The latest eccentricity in language is the use of “OD” on TikTok. People will say things like “That’s so OD” or “You’re OD.” ...

The so-called “Ketamine Queen of Los Angeles” has been charged with providing the ketamine that caused the overdose deaths of Matthew Perry and another man, according to the feds. Jasveen ...

The overdose death rate among young adults ages 18 to 24 spiked 34% in just five years between 2018 and 2022, according to data provided to NPR from the CDC. The trend largely is driven by cheap ...

You take each type and brand of mesalamine in a different way. Rowasa. This medicine comes as a fluid that you put into your rectum and colon. You take Rowasa once a day and leave it in for 20 to ...

CAMERON, La. (KPLC) - A formal arrest has been made in a June 2022 overdose death in Cameron. Michaela Jo Gray, 34, faces second-degree murder charges in the death of Sheila Faulk. Her bond is ...

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More than 100,000 people have died of overdoses every year since 2021. Most drug overdose deaths have a single culprit: the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. But the most recent data ...

This brief uses data on overdose deaths from the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) data platform. Data are shown for the 35 member cities in the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Figure 1: Drug ...

After leaving that facility, Jenna lost her life to a fentanyl overdose on February 15, 2019. She was 26 years old. Each year, more than 80,000 people in the US die from an overdose involving opioids.

The U.S. opioid epidemic has caused a startling number of overdose deaths, but a new survey shows that most Americans still have no idea how to help an OD victim. More than 3 in 4 people (77% ...