With the drop in overdose deaths, “we're celebrating: a death toll that exceeds total American combat fatalities in Vietnam, ...

Newly released statistics from Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco show that drug trends are changing.

Tennessee’s overdose surveillance system is not designed to detect newly engineered synthetic opioids quickly. The emergence ...

Health insurance loss, changes "may undermine continuity of critical treatment," researche ...

An analysis of state health data shows that opioid overdose hospitalizations have decreased by more than 20% in the last year, marking two consecutive years of declining emergency department visits in ...

Opioids were involved in one out of every 65 deaths in the U.S. in 2016. For younger adults, that number jumped to one in five deaths, a study published in JAMA Network Open found. Research was ...

Socially vulnerable counties face higher overdose deaths and treatment needs, findings that could help prioritize funding and programming responses, according to Rutgers researchers Opioids such as ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Opioid-related overdoses in 2024 dropped in half compared to 2023, a new report from the Ingham County Health Department shows. The Ingham County Substance Use Surveillance ...

COOK COUNTY, IL — Preliminary statistics for cases handled in 2025 by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office show a substantial decline in homicides and opioid overdose deaths over 2024. While the ...

The number of opioid prescriptions in Tennessee increased by 31.6 percent from 2007 to 2011, and the rise in prescriptions was linked to an increase in opioid overdose mortalities, according to a ...

L.A. County halted sales of kratom products over concern about potential overdoses. Some say officials aren't considering how ...