The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and ...

Federal officials approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid​ medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually ...

A University of the Pacific team has developed a single-dose injection to counter the effects of fentanyl and other opioid ...

Monroe County Executive Adam J. Bello announced the creation of the Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) initiative, which will ...

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The University of New Brunswick has placed nasal spray naloxone kits around its campuses for emergency opioid overdose situations. The kits were already available in Saint John residences ...

"An overdose prevention site takes care of the whole person and tries to connect them to other services in the community that ...

The Kelso School Board voted 3-1 at its Monday meeting to approve a policy that would allow students to carry overdose reversal medication in schools. Board member Rich Fletcher voted against the ...

SAGINAW, MI — Almost three years since a basketball trainer died of a drug overdose, a jury has convicted a Saginaw man of providing the fatal batch. Jurors deliberated for about an hour before ...

OnPoint NYC’s supervised consumption site offers lifesaving harm reduction services, reversing 1,700 overdoses since 2021, ...

A convicted drug trafficker currently serving time for his connection with the overdose death of a minor was caught smuggling drugs into prison using drones while serving a previous sentence.