Earlier this year, the Polk County Health Department installed a harm reduction vending machine outside of its building. The ...

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A batch of illicit drugs that was mixed with fentanyl and other substances may have been the cause of a mass overdose in.

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A Lacey firefighter saved a puppy exposed to fentanyl by giving it naloxone at the Nisqually Reservation Tuesday morning.

Two Vacaville police officers were treated with naloxone and taken to an area hospital Tuesday night after they showed signs ...

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Naloxone, which was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1971, works by blocking opioids from acting on receptors in the brain and reverses the depressed breathing caused by ...

Although federal funding changes are challenging Gary Harm Reduction, the local organization does what it can to help those affected by addiction.

Initial vending machine sites are six businesses, mostly in North County, and the county health department's three health ...

Federal researchers in Maryland identified a dangerous new sedative, N-methyl clonazepam, mixed with fentanyl in a recent ...