According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, OPCs are associated with several benefits, including eliminating overdose deaths at OPCs and reducing demand on local healthcare and emergency ...
Project Weber/RENEW on July 10, 2025. The center provides harm reduction and recovery services and sits next to the Rhode Island Hospital campus in Providence. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This ...
In Connecticut’s last legislative session, language to establish overdose prevention centers in the state was stripped out of a bill before it got to a final vote in the House. Lawmakers and advocates ...
Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived. Employees with Project Weber-Renew in ...
Student Governing Association senator Brady Clark proposed legislation on April 16 that would expand access to naloxone, a ...
Three years ago, drug overdose deaths involving opioids like fentanyl — a powerful painkiller — were on the rise, here in Florida and nationwide. In 2021, more than 8,000 people died of fatal drug ...
There are 19 naloxone access points on the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus, sponsored by Boynton Health and its partners. Most students walk by them without even realizing they are there.
B project began with cold-calling Indianapolis residents. As director of community outreach at Overdose Lifeline, she tried ...
Southern Nevada health officials in the last year found a decrease in opioid deaths, expanded overdose intervention resources ...
OpEd: Our county has failed to both spend an initial $9 million in opioid abatement funds and explain what the hold up is.
The number of deadly overdoses in San Francisco has decreased in recent years, but not as quickly as in other parts of the ...
Indiana University will install naloxone boxes in all 19 Bloomington residence halls starting in the spring 2026 semester. The initiative aims to increase the number of bystanders trained and equipped ...