Every year, overdoses of heroin and opiates, such as Oxycontin, kill more drug users than AIDS, hepatitis or homicide. And the number of overdoses has gone up dramatically over the past decade. But ...

Another measure of the heroin epidemic in Northern Kentucky appeared in the old Kenton County Courthouse as people turned out for the drug that neutralizes the effects of an overdose.A grass-roots ...

In the storage room of a Wasilla boutique, 35 volunteers worked a makeshift assembly line Thursday, putting together kits to fight heroin overdose and hoping to save lives. Much of the work was done ...

GREEN, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio airport has installed "opioid rescue" kits in its terminal to give employees and travelers quick access to a nasal spray that reverses overdoses. Akron-Canton Airport ...

Family members, friends and coworkers of someone who uses opioid drugs should have a naloxone rescue kit on hand, as should anyone in recovery from an opioid problem, according to a news release.

OXNARD, Calif. -- Oxnard police officers began distributing overdose rescue kits to the city's unsheltered population in December as part of a new pilot program. The police department's Homeless ...