Kastalia Medrano 
Illinois Overdose Prevention Center Bill Is Moving Forward Again
In Illinois, a bill to authorize an overdose prevention center (OPC) pilot is working ...
Rezenopy, the 10 Mg Naloxone Nasal Spray, Enters the OD Antidote Market
Two years after its approval by the Food and Drug Administration, opioid-overdose reversal product ...
DEA Emergency Order Puts Novel Benzo Bromazolam in Schedule I
The Drug Enforcement Administration has temporarily placed bromazolam, an unregulated benzodiazepine, under Schedule I ...
Mortality Rate for LA’s Unhoused Residents Drops for the First Time
For the first time in the decade that the Los Angeles County Department of ...
FDA Eyeing “Drug Disposal” Products, for Destroying Rx Opioids at Home
The Food and Drug Administration is asking the public to weigh in on the ...
CDC Identifies Specific Drugs Most Frequently Cited in Overdose Deaths
On March 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a published a National Vital ...
No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”
A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described ...
DEA Permanently Bans Five Benzos, the First to Be Placed in Schedule I
On March 2, the Drug Enforcement Administration published a final rule permanently scheduling five ...
Oklahoma Weighs “Repeat Offender” Law for Drug Use During Pregnancy
Oklahoma is considering a bill that would increase the state’s authority to intervene when ...
Pressured by Fentanyl Deaths, County Coroner Laws Evolve in Weird Ways
Legislators in Indiana have unanimously advanced a bill that proposes an unusual solution to ...
