The sheriff’s office and correctional facility will now carry, Opvee, which Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar has deemed to ...

In addition to Narcan, sheriff's departments in at least three states have begun using another overdose reversal nasal spray ...

A new additional drug in the fight against the opioid overdose crisis has slowly been making its way across the country and ...

The Broome County Sheriff’s Office will be carrying around a new opioid antagonist similar to Narcan, to prevent overdose ...

On April 22, 2024, Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar announced that county deputies and corrections officers are now equipped ...

Broome County Sheriff's Office passed a new fentanyl fighter pilot program to hopefully save lives throughout the county on ...

While treatments like Narcan have been successful in the fight against opioid overdoses, many say they are not as effective when it comes to fentanyl. However, there is a new drug that could ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- On Feb. 17, Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar wrote a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul asking her to add another nasal spray for overdoses to the police arsenal. Naloxone, also ...

Both Opvee and Kloxxado have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration within the past few years, with the federal agency touting both products as additional options in the treatment ...

Some argue a need for more potent — and pricier — overdose reversal drugs; others frame that effort as drugmakers peddling ...

The drug is called Opvee and was approved by the FDA in May of 2023 and is the first Nalmefene nasal spray to be approved. It is another step further in helping fight overdoses both from addiction ...