Narcan

The Peoria Fire Department and the Peoria County Coroner are offering words of community awareness and support in the face of two suspected opioid…

Paramedics in Peoria seemed relieved for the opportunity to talk openly about their experiences responding to overdose calls.On Mon., the employees at…

The Peoria Police Department is issuing a ‘buyer beware notice’ to crack cocaine users. A new form of fentanyl laced in rocks of crack is responsible for…

Tazewell County Deputies are all now carrying Narcan Nasal Spray to counteract opioid overdoses. The Narcan training was rolled in with other mandated…

Law enforcement in Springfield are benefiting from local public officials' efforts to give them easier access to an opioid overdose antidote.A 2015…

Some law enforcement agencies in northern Illinois are finding creative ways to replenish their supplies of a pricey emergency drug that can save the…

A new law makes a drug that counteracts opioid overdose easier to get. But is that enough? Northlake resident Steve Kamenicky is lucky to be alive. He’s...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Trained pharmacists in Illinois soon will be able to dispense the overdose reversal drug naloxone without a prescription.…

Illinois lawmakers' attack on heroin abuse is law despite a partial veto by Gov. Bruce Rauner. The law requires emergency authorities and school nurses to…

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies in Macon County in central Illinois are learning to save lives by administering a medicine that reverses the…