Opioid overdose deaths continued to rise among adolescents and young adults during a recent 5-year period, and synthetic ...

Fatal overdoses among US youth from synthetic opioids alone surged from 2018 to 2022, surpassing deaths from polydrug ...

Overdoses and drug poisonings are the third leading cause of death in people under age 20, per the CDC, and synthetic opioids play an increasingly concerning role.

A little over half the state’s fatal overdoses from 2017 to 2023 involved methamphetamine use, according to a new bulletin ...

Among US youth, overdose deaths attributable to synthetic opioids alone are increasingly predominant, according to a study.

West Virginia had the highest rate of fatal opioid overdoses of any state in 2023, according to a new analysis from KFF.  The analysis is based on finalized 2023 opioid overdose death totals from the ...

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Austin and Travis County leaders gave an update on the opioid overdose epidemic on Tuesday afternoon. <a href=" ...

(CNN) — The United States is facing an alarming increase in overdose deaths among young people due to synthetic opioids. The rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, which ...

Data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services shows a 34% reduction in overdose deaths between 2023 and 2024.

West Virginia is the hardest-hit of all states when it comes to overdose drug deaths. Must be those damn pills, right? Wrong.