Narcan

NBC Connecticut Investigates asks if schools are prepared to handle an overdose.

When three students were exposed to fentanyl inside Hartford’s Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in January, the school did not have potentially life-saving medication on hand. One of the seventh graders died two days later. “The poor kid didn’t get a chance for Narcan because they didn’t even suspect it was opioids. We have to suspect all the time,”...

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress

Learning the ins and outs about Narcan is the focal point for Waterbury Public School administrators who participated in a training session on Thursday. One of the factors working in the district’s favor is the school system’s had Narcan inside their schools since 2019 thanks to a partnership with the city’s health department, which also trains and provides school...

Waterbury began training some school staff Thursday to administer naloxone to someone suffering an opioid overdose.

Amid recent incidents of school-related drug overdoses, the Consolidated School District of New Britain announced they’ll be training their staff to use Narcan. Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is an opioid reversal drug used in emergency situations. The city will train school administrators first, with the help of New Britain EMS. Training will eventually expand to teachers and the...

The town of Trumbull is taking on opioid overdose prevention by offering a free class for residents, complete with a take-home naloxone -or Narcan- kit. It’s not difficult to actually use the naloxone in an emergency, but the challenge is breaking the stigma and getting people mentally prepared if they ever have to save someone who is overdosing. Leigh...

Hamden’s Board of Education is considering keeping a batch of Nalaxone at schools.

A woman working to serve the needy at Saint Vincent de Paul in Middletown has saved not just one life but two in just the past week.

Four inmates at the Hartford Correctional Center were hospitalized after overdosing on fentanyl inside the jail and officials from the state Department of Correction said Wednesday that one of the inmates was pronounced dead on Saturday.

A 4-year-old program that provides Connecticut state troopers with training and equipment to reverse opioid overdoses is being credited with saving 268 lives.

The Torrington Board of Education has approved a policy that will allow Narcan at all of its six public schools.

Singer Demi Lovato was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after an apparent drug overdose. The former Disney star has been open about her struggles with addiction and recently celebrated six years of sobriety. However, in her latest song “Sober” Lovato admitted that she had relapsed.

Health officials are investigating a sudden spike in non-fatal drug overdoses in the Philadelphia area over the weekend.

Cities like Baltimore are feeling the financial squeeze as they rely on naloxone to try and counteract rising overdose rates. Some hard-hit communities across the country are struggling to pay for dosages even at reduced prices. With more overdoses driven by synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil — so potent it’s used as an elephant tranquilizer — naloxone remains pricy...

Hartford police have arrested a New Britain woman accused of bringing heroin to her boyfriend while he was a patient at Saint Francis Hospital.

A winner of the reality TV show “Survivor” bit a police officer after being found unconscious in the driver’s seat of her running parked car and had to be revived with the opioid overdose antidote drug Narcan, police said.

As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis.

Ninety-one people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related overdoses, but there’s a tool that can reverse the effects of an overdose that more and more law enforcement agencies and paramedics are now carrying with them as part of their standing operating protocol. It’s called Narcan, and here is what you need to know about what it is, how...

Nearly 1,100 people will die from drug overdoses in Connecticut this year, according to recent projections from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. While access to Narcan, or naloxone, will not solve the drug crisis, it can save lives.