Narcan

Two people have been charged in separate incidents of drug use while driving in New Bedford. New Bedford Police say a Middleboro man was found overdosing in his car Sunday afternoon near the fire station on Pleasant Street. 24-year-old Joseph Delsignore was revived with Narcan and transported to St...

NARCAN was administered after New Bedford police say another driver was found unresponsive due to drug use.

Charges are being filed against a Westport woman police say was on drugs when she crashed her car in New Bedford. Police say 32-year-old Jessica Baulier of Westport crashed her Hyundai Sonata into a tree on Robert Street near the Elizabeth Carter Brooks Elementary School around 3pm Tuesday...

Elizabeth posted on Facebook to respond to another woman's opinion on addicts and Narcan. In a letter addressed to the "judgy lady on facebook," she opens up about her experience with a heroin addict, and a heartbreaking loss. WARNING: Strong language used ...

When it comes to school employees, is it time we, the taxpayer, demand that all government school employees (Superintendent down to custodian) be drug tested. Teachers are always running programs telling students to just say no to drug. It's time we make them practice what they preach...

Beginning this academic year, Dartmouth Public Schools will be outfitted with the overdose-reversing drug known as Narcan.

A New Bedford man is revived after he was found slumped over the wheel of his truck. New Bedford Police Spokesman Lt. Amos Melo tells WBSM News the 48-year-old man was found unresponsive behind the wheel of his Chevy Avalanche at Sycamore and Park Streets in the West End just after 5pm Thursday...

Two city men are dead of apparent drug overdoses. New Bedford Police Lt. Al Souza tells WBSM News police and paramedics were called to a residence on School Street downtown at 2:30am Wednesday morning. Upon arrival, the victim was still breathing...

Fall River Police are taking a new approach to combatting the city's heroin crisis.

A Fairhaven man is dead and five other people are treated for suspected heroin overdoses in New Bedford. Detective captain Steven Vicente says the unidentified 48-year-old fairhaven man was visiting friends in a North Street apartment early Thursday afternoon when he went to use the bathroom...