First Responder Naloxone Paramedicine 
JEMS
JUNE 11, 2025
This includes ‘naloxone wake-up’ calls. Many times, when EMS providers administer naloxone to unconscious and apneic overdose patients, the patient becomes conscious, complaining of withdrawal symptoms induced by the use of naloxone. Provided photo.)
JEMS
JUNE 13, 2025
When combined with fentanyl, it can cause profound sedation, respiratory depression, and hemodynamic compromise—and naloxone doesn’t reverse it. For EMTs and paramedics, this growing trend requires a shift in how we recognize and respond to overdose syndromes. What Is Medetomidine? Where Is It Showing Up?
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JEMS
JUNE 25, 2025
Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/TNS) Nick Coltrain – The Denver Post DENVER — Colorado will use $3 million from the state’s opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Tuesday. Used appropriately, it can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
JEMS
JULY 11, 2025
that officers, fire crews and several ambulances responded to the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues. First responders found three of the victims behind a CVS at 9:30 a.m., During that time, Baltimore City fire personnel administered naloxone subsequent to an overdose 1,149 times.
JEMS
JUNE 25, 2025
Admin/Leadership News News Feed Headlines New York Must View Unmasking the Mental Health Crisis Among First Responders JEMS Managing Editor Jeff Frankel hosts a deep dive into the mental health challenges facing first responders. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
JEMS
AUGUST 13, 2025
during peak hours, for $520,000 the first year and increasing $20,000 each year thereafter. Georgetown Township Fire Department provides medical first responders at various levels of service, ranging from $604,000 to $2.7 Life EMS provides two MFRUs, one 24-hours per day and a second unit from 10 a.m.
JEMS
JULY 11, 2025
In the last year, DPH said they distributed over 500,000 fentanyl test strip kits and nearly 200,000 naloxone kits to community organizations across the state. The naloxone kits contributed to the reversal of at least 7,500 overdoses in 2024, the department stated. Visit at bostonherald.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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