SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond provided testimony at a joint hearing of the California Assembly Select Committees on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction and Overdose Prevention; Public Safety; and Health to share updates on efforts he and the California Department of Education...

In honor of National Fentanyl Awareness Day California State Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo (D-Chatsworth) joined a legislative press conference on Tuesday, May 9 to offer her support for the bipartisan solutions moving forward in the legislature to tackle the fentanyl crisis. Her support includes co-authoring...

Los Angeles County Fire Department officials have transported at least a half-dozen inmates from facilities at Pitchess Detention Center this week for suspected overdoses, several of which Sheriff Alex Villanueva hailed as a success for his “Naloxone Custody Pilot Project” on social media. A Sheriff’s...

Two rounds of Narcan had to be administered by Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies Friday morning to keep a suspected overdose patient alive. The call came in at around 3:30 a.m. Friday in the Camp Plenty area for a report of an overdose, said Shirley Miller, a spokeswoman for the station. When...

A 36-year-old Santa Clarita mother of five children survived a heroin overdose Thursday, revived by Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies armed with Narcan. In reporting the overdose, station officials asked the community for help in fighting the opioid crisis on the local front. Here’s...

Proving just how necessary Narcan has become in saving the lives of SCV heroin addicts, local sheriff’s deputies dispatched Thursday for an unresponsive man feared dead in the bathroom of a Stevenson Ranch restaurant watched signs of life return to the man after paramedics administered the drug. At...

By Nicholas Iovino SACRAMENTO — California’s top public health official has issued a standing order requiring pharmacies statewide to make the life-saving, anti-overdose drug naxolone available without a prescription. Also known by its brand name Narcan, naloxone counters the effects of an overdose...

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies used Narcan Naloxone nasal spray to revive a man who apparently overdosed on fentanyl in Saugus, according to a post on the station’s Facebook page. Here’s the story: We were asked recently how it was going with the use of the Naloxone...

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station is set to receive a donation of the overdose-fighting drug Narcan after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the gift at a Tuesday meeting. Read complete story [HERE].

Groups of deputies at Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station were trained Thursday on the use of naloxone, commonly known as Narcan®, so that they can immediately treat opioid overdoses, according to LASD PIO Shirley Miller. “It all goes hand in hand,” Miller said in a statement. “There...