A new study suggests that GLP-1 agonist medications like Ozempic, which are used for diabetes management and weight loss, may help reduce the risk of overdose and alcohol intoxication in people with ...

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, said Tuesday the agency sent letters to manufacturers of the diarrhea medication loperamide — known by the brand name Imodium — requesting the over-the-counter ...

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it if she had any clean needles or naloxone, a medication that can reverse the ...

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office says it is the first agency in the state to deploy a technology aimed at reducing the risk of overdose death behind bars. In the ...

Evan Ashkin, a family physician and director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program, has long been concerned about people who are returning to the community from prison — ...

Since being deemed a public health emergency in 2017, opioids are responsible for 72% of drug overdose deaths in the United States, according to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics. New ...

Previous research has shown that patients discharged against medical advice are twice as likely to die and 10 times more likely to overdose. Risk prediction models may help clinicians identify ...

Drug overdose can happen to anyone not just because of intoxication but also due to the improper use of everyday medication A ...