Naloxone saves lives The nation’s opioid epidemic claimed more than 33,000 lives in 2015, but that figure would have been even higher if it wasn’t for the life-saving opioid overdose antidote naloxone. For more than 40 years, naloxone…

Here's how the drug naloxone can stop opioid overdoses. "You can actually resurrect someone," said Dr. Phil Skolnick from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (Washington Post, 20.09.2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/overdose-ant…

Hamilton County, Ohio, will distribute 30,000 doses of an overdose-reversing drug to try to stop a rash of deaths that has besieged the area. In what is believed to be the first program and clinical study of its kind in the country, the county will…

As Francis Collins and I wrote in May, NIH and NIDA are committed to an “all scientific hands on deck” effort to end the opioid crisis in America by halving the time it takes to develop new medications to treat pain and addiction and rev…

München – Mit einer Zwei-Säulen-Strategie will die CSU die steigende Zahl der Drogentoten in Bayern reduzieren. Dabei setzt sie neben Prävention auch auf ein wissenschaftlich begleitetes Modellprojekt mit dem Heroin-Gegenmittel…

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. More than 59,000 people are believed to have died from drug overdose in 2016, an increase of nearly 20 percent from the previous year. Most of these deaths are caused by opioids…