Life-saving abilities are now constantly at arms reach for the security team at Haven for Hope, which serves a community experiencing homelessness. Haven's Life Safety Officers (LSOs) each have a pouch on their belt labeled naloxone, which has the brand name Narcan.

A pharmacy on the Southwest Side was ordered to pay a $275,000 civil penalty following allegations from the U.S. government that it unlawfully distributed opioids.

Virtual training sessions that began during the pandemic have allowed far more people to take the trainings, including people from rural areas and tribal nations.

Danica Kaprosy was found lying face down, unresponsive, on her bed last July. Her family blames her death on a fentanyl-laced pill.

Bexar County residents who have an opioid addiction will soon have more resources available to help them after the county approved a roughly $12 million portion of a settlement between the State of Texas and Johnson & Johnson worth more than $290 million.

After having his office ransacked, a San Antonio podiatrist is raising awareness about the severity of the opioid epidemic.

SAN ANTONIO – Tiffany Harper was once a woman addicted to drugs after using it to cope with trauma in her life. That’s when she moved into Casa Mia, a recovery center for mothers recovering from addiction. Casa Mia and the new Women’s Wellness Center is a joint effort by the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing and Crosspoint. The idea is to provide a place for recovering mothers to live with their babies as they rebuild their lives. “This has had a huge impact on young families,” said Dr. Lisa Cleveland of UT Health School of Nursing.

The Bexar County Opioid Task Force announced Tuesday that it will be using money from a grant to will help those who are released from jail and reentering the community. "We're going to start a pilot program in the jail that we have a grant for that will help with the transition," said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff. Bexar County to seek $1 billion in first opioid trial in TexasThe new Medication Assisted Treatment Pilot Program will help people struggling with opioid addiction behind bars and that are reentering the community. “People would get two shots over 60 days in the jail and two shots after release,” said TJ Mayes, Bexar County Opioid Task Force Chairman. The task force anticipates that the program will serve about 100 people.

SAN ANTONIO – The opioid epidemic is a growing problem across the nation, and now Bexar County is expanding a treatment program for those who are addicted. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, along with Pct 2. Commissioner Justin Rodriguez and TJ Mayes, chairman of the Bexar County Opioid Task Force, announced an expansion of the county’s mental health program. The medication-assisted treatment pilot program will help people who battled opioid addiction behind bars and are reentering the community while under the supervision of a judge. The Bexar County Task Force is also getting approval for a syringe services program.