A new additional drug in the fight against the opioid overdose crisis has slowly been making its way across the country and ...

More than four months after the Food and Drug Administration approved the overdose reversal medication Opvee, the manufacturer, Indivior, has started shipping the life-saving drug to first ...

Some argue a need for more potent — and pricier — overdose reversal drugs; others frame that effort as drugmakers peddling ...

While treatments like Narcan have been successful in the fight against opioid overdoses, many say they are not as effective when it comes to fentanyl. However, there is a new drug that could ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- On Feb. 17, Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar wrote a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul asking her to add another nasal spray for overdoses to the police arsenal. Naloxone, also ...

Both Opvee and Kloxxado have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration within the past few years, with the federal agency touting both products as additional options in the treatment ...

The award from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will be used in part to create a stockpile of 200,000 doses of Opvee, the first nalmefene-based nasal spray to be ...

AP Photo/Leah Willingham, File Some 27 other states are using FDA-approved OD “reversal” drugs more effective than Naloxone in combating synthetic opioids, such as Opvee.

In this segment, they discuss the Opioid Epidemic and how to help make a difference. OPVEE adds another emergency treatment option for those who are impacted by overdoses related to opioid use ...

Endorsed by former United States Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, OPVEE is the first nalmefene nasal spray to be approved by the FDA. Adams says the spray could be more effective than Narcan in c ...

A judge sentenced a 31-year-old Lincoln man to prison Thursday for distributing cocaine, at least some of which was tied to ...

The drug is called Opvee and was approved by the FDA in May of 2023 and is the first Nalmefene nasal spray to be approved. It is another step further in helping fight overdoses both from addiction ...