naloxone

A powerful animal tranquillizer that has been infiltrating street drugs in the United States has been increasingly showing up in Canada’s illicit opioid supply — a phenomenon that has experts “deeply concerned.” Xylazine, a sedative…

A rise in the circulation of highly potent fentanyl that is increasingly being mixed with other drugs is making Canada’s street drug supply so toxic and unpredictable, tools to prevent overdoses such as naloxone are not always fully…

A health and safety consultant who teaches people how to administer naloxone is calling a recently updated City of Edmonton policy on the life-saving medicine "an absolute failure."According to Cyndil Taylor, branch manager of workforce…

Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of opioid overdose in the nation, and, according to Penn State researchers, one's chances of surviving that overdose can depend on where the person lives. Using data from the Pennsylvania Overdose…

When a teenage girl collapsed on the SkyTrain in Coquitlam, B.C., passengers calling 911 thought she had fainted or was having an epileptic seizure. It was only when paramedics administered naloxone that some realized she’d overdosed…

It's been three years since Isabelle Fortier lost her daughter, Sara-Jane. She had been alone in her University of Ottawa dorm room when she suffered an overdose due to fentanyl in her drug supply. In her grief, Fortier turned to educating…

An organization that works with schools across Canada to create CPR and defibrillator training programs is now looking to offer naloxone training programs for teachers and high school students.The program will teach secondary school…

Hundreds of thousands of high school students in Canada will be given training on how to respond to someone overdosing on opioids, including on how to inject naloxone – a drug used to reverse the effects of overdoses. The Advanced…

The medication naloxone is so effective at saving the lives of opioid overdose victims that some people worry that it might make drug users think heroin and related drugs are no longer risky. But a new study suggests that is not the case.…

PLANS to expand the supply of a life-saving drug that can reverse the effects of an overdose have been put out to consultation.  During the pandemic, families of drug users and a wide range of professionals have been allowed to…