Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University have developed an implantable device that can detect an overdose and rapidly deliver Narcan to the person in need. Narcan currently works great when there is someone around to deliver it...
A new report from the University of Missouri-St. Louis shows that for the first time in several years, the state’s drug overdose deaths declined by 11%. Alisa Nelson talks to Rachel Winograd, an associate professor at the university, who says the decline is good news...
Missouri lawmakers and health professionals are wrestling with Missouri’s substance abuse problem. Doug Burgess, an addiction psychiatry professor at UMKC, tells a legislative task force that one of the big challenges health professionals are dealing with is substance...
Missouri law has been getting in the way of sheriff’s departments when they respond to drug overdoses. A bill awaiting a decision by Gov. Mike Parson would no longer require them to be under the supervision of a medical director or ambulance service in order to give...