U.S. drug overdose deaths (DODs) started declining in 2023, with a faster decline for opioid-related versus stimulant-related ...

Spokane County is grappling with a significant public health crisis as the illegal drug use problem intensifies. County ...

Spokane County is grappling with a significant public health crisis as the illegal drug use problem intensifies. County ...

By Ayush Banerjee It is happening in school bathrooms, public parks, and even inside people’s homes. The opioid crisis, often linked with distant cities or rural states, has taken firm root in the Bay ...

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

A sudden rise in fatal overdoses has county officials urging care providers to be on alert and warn clients, as questions ...

The District of Columbia has reached a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family for their role in ...

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

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro was among those trained in “lifesaving techniques” such as “Stop the Bleed” and administration of the overdose antidote Narcan when Quinnipiac University nursing ...

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

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

The statistics are cause for optimism. But now is not the time to scale back the work.