A Jacksonville woman was arrested Wednesday in connection with the death of her 2-year-old toddler, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Bradford County Fire Rescue has initiated a new community program to raise awareness among residents. In July of this year, BCFR introduced the Community Paramedicine Program. This program supports individuals in various areas, including substance abuse education, chronic disease management, hospital discharge follow-up, and connecting them to community resources—all at no cost to the patients.

New government data shows that U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to be showing a sustained decline.

Drug Free Duval has partnered with JTA to provide Narcan training, which is offered on board the stationary bus.

Clay County Fire Rescue will host several Paramedicine Narcan events throughout Clay County in October to promote overdose prevention and understanding of narcotics.

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority and Drug Free Duval held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for a new branded bus which will provide free opioid overdose prevention training and Narcan doses to high-risk communities.

On Wednesday, eight Jacksonville first responders were given Back the Blue Awards for saving an infant suffering from a fentanyl overdose.

A 7-month-old boy was rescued at a Spring Park apartment complex after he was found unresponsive because of a suspected drug overdose.

Gov. Andy Beshear says drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023.

The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year.

An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year.

I was having a discussion with some coworkers, and the topic of Narcan got brought up as a potential solution to drug overdoses. My initial reaction was quite literally, “What in the world is Narcan?”

A chilling body camera video shows a local deputy's encounter with fentanyl, as he asks another deputy for an ambulance. This close call Thursday was one of many topics of conversation at a fentanyl roundtable in Clay County Friday morning.

A deputy's first-person perspective during a dangerous fentanyl exposure Thursday was captured on his body camera, along with a Narcan rescue by a fellow deputy that likely saved his life, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office said.

Prosecutors in Georgia want rapper Quando Rondo back in jail after he crashed a car while awaiting trial on gang and drug charges.

San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy within its boundaries to always carry naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids.

Vending machines that have long been stocked with snacks are getting repurposed to distribute life-saving supplies to fight the opioid epidemic.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved selling overdose antidote naloxone over-the-counter, marking the first time an opioid treatment drug will be available without a prescription.

A controversial new program that’s aimed at saving lives has begun in Putnam County.

The Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee (NDAC) and the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee (AADPAC) is discussing supplemental new drug application 208411/S–006, for NARCAN (naloxone hydrochloride) nasal spray, submitted by Emergent BioSolutions Inc.

The White House has launched a new national online database, which tracks the rates of nonfatal opioid overdoses. That website went live just yesterday -- and officials say the goal is to help direct resources to the areas where they're needed the most.

For years, naloxone, which is also sold under the commonly-known brand name Narcan, has been used to reverse the effects of a life-threatening opioid overdose.

As we continue to shed light on the overdose epidemic, we want to make sure you know that you can make a difference and save a life by arming yourself with an overdose-reversing medication.

Drug overdoses are taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year in the United States.

A man and woman are facing child neglect charges after a young girl overdosed on fentanyl and had to be given multiple doses of Narcan, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Community activists in South Florida sprang into action after West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a house party.

The death of a Connecticut seventh grader from an apparent fentanyl overdose has renewed calls for schools to carry the opioid antidote naloxone.

A big drug sweep four months in the making has landed 31 people in jail, with Jacksonville police looking for 32 more.

FILE - In this April 26, 2018, file photo, a man lies on the sidewalk beside a recyclable trash bin in San Francisco. A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)SAN FRANCISCO – A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far. The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn't for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. The data reflects the number of times people report using Narcan to the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project, a city-funded program that coordinates San Francisco’s response to overdose, or return to refill their supply.

In addition to this approval of the first generic naloxone nasal spray, moving forward we will prioritize our review of generic drug applications for naloxone. The FDA also has previously approved a brand-name naloxone nasal spray and an auto-injector for use by those without medical training. These steps include important work to improve the efficiency of the generic drug approval process and address barriers to generic drug development. Naloxone nasal spray does not require assembly and delivers a consistent, measured dose when used as directed. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. has received final FDA approval to market the generic naloxone nasal spray.

These analogues seen earlier this year in the Ohio Valley and the Medical Examiner's Office reports seeing more bodies in Jacksonville with lethal combinations of fentanyl analogues. Narcan is widely used to reverse on opioid overdose but, the fentanyl analogues are so strong, Narcan often doesn’t work, and overdose calls to 911 in Jacksonville have doubled every year for three years. Of opioid deaths in the state last year, 965 of those people had used fentanyl analogs. Occurrences of fentanyl increased by 80 percent, and deaths caused by fentanyl skyrocketed by 97 percent. Duval County is the only county where the per capita number of fentanyl deaths exceeded 25 per 100,000 residents.