Narcan

At least three men in New Bedford overdosed on heroin over the weekend. New Bedford Detective Captain Steven Vicente tells WBSM News the overdoses were reported to police on Saturday. Vicente says the overdoses took place in private residences on Phillips Road, Maryland Street, and Pleasant Street...

A New Bedford man is arrested after being revived from an overdose. Detective Captain Steven Vicente says Thursday morning around 1am, police and medics responded to 40 Thompson Street in the South End, finding a shoeless and shirtless man on the ground, suffering from an overdose...

In the search for new ideas to old problems, we're starting to talk about a controversial suggestion to open up state sponsored injection facilities for heroin addicts. Here's what's happening right now in New Bedford, and other cities; there are billions in taxpayer's dollars going towards fighting addict crime and robberies, paying for EMT's, Narcan and ambulances, police and fire personnel, com

A 32-year-old New Bedford man died on Wednesday afternoon of a suspected heroin overdose just days after being saved with Narcan from another overdose.

A man is revived by Fairhaven emergency personnel after suffering a heroin overdose. Police and Paramedics responded to the overdose at 2:30pm Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Southcoast Urgent Care Center on Mill Road. Upon arrival, a 38-year-old Maine man was found unconscious in the passenger seat of a car...

The City of New Bedford saw a rash of heroin overdoses Monday. Detective Captain Steve Vicente says four overdoses were reported to police within a matter of seven hours. One of the victims was found slumped over the steering wheel of his truck near his home in the South End...

There's bipartisan legislation on Capitol Hill that would encourage physicians to co-prescribe the life-saving drug naloxone, otherwise known as narcan, alongside opioid prescriptions. The bill was filed by Mass. Congressman Bill Keating and Republican Rep...

Walgreens is going to start selling the heroin antidote called naloxone, also known as Narcan. The chain announced that the antidote will be available without a prescription in at least 35 states, including Massachusetts. Carl Alves, director of PAACA, calls the news fantastic and necessary...

New Bedford City Councilor Debora Coelho, Chairperson of the Public Safety Committee is filing a motion to hold repeat drug abusers in the hospital for 24 hours, possibly against their will. Brian isn't for it. How about you?