narcan

According to the Mass Department of Health, the state has issued a standing order for the distribution of Naloxone, which is also known by the name Narcan.

A homeless woman was arrested and faces multiple charges after assaulting paramedics and two Dartmouth Police Officers.

A New Bedford man is being cited for operating under the influence of drugs after he was found unresponsive in his vehicle on Tuesday.

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are charging a city man after he was found slumped over in his vehicle Monday morning. New Bedford police responded to reports around 9:30 a.m. Monday of an unresponsive man in a car in the area of 39 Rockland Street near the city's South End...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford man who had apparently overdosed in his car now faces charges. Police were called to the intersection of Hadley Street and Acushnet Avenue before 10 P.M. Wednesday for a report of a man possibly overdosing in a vehicle...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts city is considering a proposal to create publicly accessible boxes containing Narcan, the medication used to counteract opioid overdoses. Cambridge officials say a passer-by who found someone suffering from an overdose could administer the drug before medics arrive...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford woman is being charged after she crashed into several parked cars in the city. Police responded to the accident before 11 P.M. Wednesday night, and found 42-year-old Dawn Lynn Costa leaning against her vehicle which had hit two parked cars in front of 40 Linden Street...

Police were dispatched to the area of Acushnet Avenue and Chaffee Street Thursday for a report of an unresponsive man in the street. Officers administered Narcan and he was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital. Evidence of drug use was found in his vehicle and he was determined to be unlicensed ...

In a wide-ranging interview with WBSM's Brian Thomas, New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro touched on a lot of subjects that plague the police force, including panhandlers, shootings and drug overdoses. Chief Cordeiro says the problem with the latter isn't with increased heroin use, but rather that the heroin is being mixed with Fentanyl, creating a more powerful and more addictive high... Rea

Two people have been charged in separate incidents of drug use while driving in New Bedford. New Bedford Police say a Middleboro man was found overdosing in his car Sunday afternoon near the fire station on Pleasant Street. 24-year-old Joseph Delsignore was revived with Narcan and transported to St...