Overdose

Sep 25

CDC data shows a 10% drop in overdose deaths this year

CDC data shows a 10% drop in overdose deaths this year.

Sep 19

Fentanyl Education Resources Available in 13 Languages

In a large-scale effort to make fentanyl and counterfeit pill education resources available to non-English speaking communities, The...

Jun 27

Opioid deaths rose 50 percent during the pandemic. In these places, they fell

Promising strategies from The HEALing Communities Study that reduced opioid fatalities despite facing pandemic-related challenges.

May 13

Study Shows Over 320,000 Children in the U.S. Lost a Parent to Drug Overdose

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry estimates that between 2011 and 2021, 321,566 children in the US lost a parent to a drug...

Jul 27, 2023

Participate in a study to advance research on intentional overdose

Addiction Policy Forum (APF) has partnered with the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) on a new project to advance...

Jun 9, 2023

CDC Dashboards Help Track Nonfatal Drug Overdoses

Overdose deaths have reached a devastating new 12-month record, with nearly 110,000 American lives lost from December 2021 to December...

Apr 4, 2023

Considerations for Over-the-Counter Naloxone: Patient, Family, and Practitioner Perspectives

A new report from the Addiction Policy Forum provides feedback from patients, caregivers, and practitioners on the U.S. Food and Drug...

Feb 17, 2023

Addiction Policy Forum endorses OTC Naloxone; Presents to the FDA

APF Executive Director Jessica Hulsey spoke before a Joint meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs and the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug...

Dec 5, 2022

Medications for Sleep Disorders Associated With Increased Overdose Risk for Teens

A new study from researchers at Rutgers University found that teens and young adults treated for sleep disorders with benzodiazepines...

Jun 1, 2022

New Overdose Data: 107,622 Overdose Deaths in 2021

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional data showing there were 107,622 overdose deaths in 2021,...

Sep 2, 2020

Colliding Epidemics Highlight Need for More Resources

As cases of COVID-19 continue to spread across America, the effects of the pandemic on the opioid crisis are creating mounting concerns...

Aug 31, 2020

International Overdose Awareness Day

Contact Your Member of Congress to Urge Them to Increase Resources for Naloxone As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the...

Jul 28, 2020

Opioid Use Disorders and Opioid Overdose Epidemics

Improving Narcan availability is the best chance of saving lives from overdose.

Apr 29, 2020

New Report on How Naloxone Saves Lives

Jan 30, 2020

Statement: Drug Overdose Deaths Decline for the First Time in Over a Decade

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed that 67,367 people died from a drug overdose in 2018.

Dec 12, 2019

Suicide might be a root cause of more opioid overdoses than we thought

If all overdoses are considered “accidental” until proven otherwise, we may be missing higher rates of suicide and depression

Aug 23, 2019

Naloxone Facts

Naloxone is now available in many places without a prescription. Naloxone is a temporary antidote for overdoses from opioid drugs Here...

Aug 22, 2019

Naloxone Administration

Naloxone is now available in most places without a prescription. Naloxone is a temporary antidote for opioid drugs which include but are...

Aug 22, 2019

After an Overdose

When someone has been revived with an opioid overdose reversal medicine they come out of it very scared, angry and confused. Here are...

Jul 25, 2019

Ask a Counselor: Yes, Mixing Substances is Dangerous and Potentially Lethal

It is important to understand how substances, including prescribed medications, can interact with each other and other substances.

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