Multiple drugs can be reported on one death certificate, and fentanyl is often found along with others, according to the CDC. “But it’s not the complete picture,” Cerdá said.

Test strips that detect a deadly animal tranquilizer cut into fentanyl and cocaine are being moved to market amid fears of a new nationwide drug epidemic. Xylazine — known on the street as tranq ...

Distressing new video shows addicts stumbling in a trance-like state along sidewalks strewn with burning trash heaps at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s “tranq” drug epidemic. The Kensington ...

'American Pain,' premiering on CNN tonight, documents how twin brothers Jeff and Chris George became Florida's opioid kingpins. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your ...

They plotted drug-overdose deaths from 1979 to 2016, and what they found was utterly baffling: deaths consistently rose 7% each year, doubling every eight to ten years, for more than four decades.

Mapped: The states hit hardest by America’s drug epidemic. Two states from the American Southwest are among the three worst regions in the country for drug abuse, a new study suggests .

Multiple drugs can be reported on one death certificate, and fentanyl is often found along with others, according to the CDC. “But it’s not the complete picture,” Cerdá said.

In "The American Disease", a sweeping analysis of the foundation of American drug policy published in 1973, the historian and psychiatrist David F. Musto closely tracked the regulation of cocaine ...

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Drug overdose deaths in the United States surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, and preliminary data suggests that 2022 was the deadliest year yet. Much of the ...