UPMC’s Mercy Hospital is increasing efforts to get overdose patients into treatment shortly after drug emergencies, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. Since November, overdose patients at ...

Patients who come to the emergency department following an opioid overdose have a 1-year mortality rate of about 5%. In this study, 17.8% of patients received a referral for outpatient treatment, 42.4 ...

Oak Lawn, Ill.-based Advocate Christ Medical Center’s pharmacy now provides certain emergency department patients with a free naloxone kit before discharge, making Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate ...

Carlos Santiago, an ambassador and driver for the Greater Hartford Harm Reduction Coalition (now known as the Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance), works at a mobile overdose prevention event in 2022 ...

Risk prediction tools might help identify patients at the highest risk of overdose and death after a “before medically advised” (BMA) hospital discharge according ...

Older adults in New Jersey recorded the highest number of suspected overdose deaths in 2025, according to the New Jersey ...

Cooper University Health Care expanded its first-in-the-nation program to help patients who have suffered an opioid-related overdose. The Bupe FIRST (Field Initiation of ReScue Treatment by EMS) ...

A nonfatal opioid overdose is often treated as a near miss. But clinically, it is one of the strongest predictors of future harm—and one of the few moments when patients are actively engaged with the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville first responders are seeing fewer overdose 911 calls, but advocates advise that people should still remain cautious. The Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department has been ...

Dr. Jay Sadrinia, a Northern Kentucky dentist, was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison but a federal appeals court ...

Jul. 2—A study published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open found that emergency room clinicians were much less likely to refer Black opioid overdose patients for outpatient treatment ...

Referrals for outpatient treatment after a suspected opioid overdose ranged from 8% to 44%, and Black patients were less likely to receive such a referral versus white patients, according to a ...