The Associated Press The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It’s a move that some advocates have long sought as a way to improve access to a…… MORE
The Rhode Island Foundation is providing a $250,000 grant to purchase thousands of opioid overdose prevention kits until a more sustainable source of state funding is in place.… MORE
On “international overdose awareness day”, activist staged a “die-in” outside the state’s health and human services offices to call on the state to provide $3 million a year to purchase enough Narcan to prevent drug overdose deaths. … MORE
