{"id":80729,"date":"2026-01-07T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80729\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:39:09","slug":"pennsylvania-reports-9500-overdose-reversals-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80729\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania reports 9,500 overdose reversals last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM) \u2014 Naloxone reversed more than 9,500 overdoses across Pennsylvania in the first nine months of 2025, the state\u2019s Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last year, providers distributed nearly 800,000 doses of the drug, which blocks opiate receptors to reverse opioid overdose, DDAP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\" data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Overdose deaths are falling in Pennsylvania. Data from the Health Department showed a 29% decrease in drug overdose deaths between 2023 and 2024. Numbers are not yet available for 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\/pennsylvania-politics\/pennsylvania-lawmaker-calls-for-higher-penalties-in-fentanyl-deaths\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pennsylvania lawmaker calls for higher penalties in fentanyl deaths;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Pennsylvania lawmaker calls for higher penalties in fentanyl deaths <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new law went into effect this month requiring EMS providers to report overdoses to the Overdose Information Network, a digital database and map. A 2022 act already required law enforcement to make reports to the database.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM) \u2014 Naloxone reversed more than 9,500 overdoses across Pennsylvania in the first nine months of 2025, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40888,40889,40890,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-80729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-alcohol-programs","9":"tag-health-department","10":"tag-opiate-receptors","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}