Naloxone is a fantastic tool in reducing opioid deaths, but gentler versions would be helpful for fighting overdose ...

With suspected drug deaths falling by 10% across Scotland, an Aberdeen charity wants to make potentially life-saving kits ...

A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House on Thursday evening, with 98 Democrats supporting the measure.

Hawaiʻi's DOH launches a website to track opioid lawsuit settlement funds and their use in tackling addiction.

Montrose West Avenue. The driver eluded police, who observed the vehicle parked at a gas pump of a Medina Road business and ...

Marijuana laced with fentanyl, the zombie drug xylazine, and nitazenes were listed as the top concerns people will face in the evolving drug ecosystem, during a Thursday hearing before the House ...

The cause of death for Justina Steffy, the 31-year-old woman whose remains were found in Warwick in October, has been deemed homicide.

Fatal overdoses in Maryland — and Allegany County — decreased dramatically in 2024, Gov. Wes Moore said Tuesday. The 1,553 ...

The approach to bring those numbers down has been all hands on deck. While statistics show it's working, overdose deaths are rising at alarming rates among Black communities.

Gatesville is the latest city to join Texas in an $83 million opioid settlement with Kroger. The settlement is expected to ...

Police in Kouvola say that several people have died in the city so far year due to possible overdoses of a drug known in street trade as "Tippa", or "Drop" in English. It is believed, however, that ...

There are widespread objections to embedding social workers with police—and to using opioid settlement funds to increase police budgets.