Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irvington township employees distributed Narcan and information about opioid addiction and treatment at a concert in June 2024.

Irvington township employees distributed Narcan and information about opioid addiction and treatment at a concert in June 2024. The township paid for the concert with national opioid settlement funds.

The settlement money had been earmarked for drug prevention, treatment, or recovery from the deadly opioid epidemic that became a scourge of so many of the state’s inner cities. Irvington apparently ...

Officials in Irvington, New Jersey, had an idea. To raise awareness about the dangers of opioid use and addiction, the township could host concerts with popular R&B artists like Q Parker and Musiq ...