Salisbury Fire Department leaders say a two-year mobile health and opioid outreach program helped cut overdose calls by more ...

The rate of drug overdose deaths has seen steep declines over the past two years, but a new data tool developed by Northwestern University suggests progress may be stalling.

The story everyone knows about the opioid epidemic goes like this: Big, bad Purdue Pharma aggressively marketed its potent ...

As North Carolina enters the second year of recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, it's worth turning our ...

Ozempic may lower the risk of opioid overdose in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests, the latest research to find a positive connection between the diabetes drug and another unrelated ...

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) can cut overdose deaths by more than 50%. To help educate providers the HCA ...

Opioid-related admissions and deaths in hospital intensive care units spiked significantly between 2009 and 2015, according to new research, published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Opioid overdose deaths in Cook County largely remained steady in 2023, likely to fall just short of the record set in 2022. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said preliminary ...

In 2023, Milwaukee County received $111 million in funds, to be given out over 18 years, representing the largest amount recovered by any local government in the history of Wisconsin. The county has ...

Jordan Ward isn’t one of the eight men killed by an overdose in a South Dakota prison in 2025, but a lawsuit filed this year ...

The proposal follows an 11.7% decrease in opioid overdoses last year, according to the Department of Health. However, overdoses increased 44.2% from 2019 to 2020, 35.6% in 2021, 26.5% in 2022, and ...

Illinois public libraries authorized to stock and administer opioid overdose reversal agents like naloxone under new IDPH standing order, enhancing community safety.