On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder ...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States last year to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new ...

That’s the lowest number of overdose deaths in the county in at least 10 years and is a steep drop from the 71 deaths ...

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.

Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...

HealthDay News — Drug overdose deaths decreased by 26.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to provisional data released May 14, 2025, from the National Center for Health Statistics.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

Fatal drug overdoses among youth aged 15 to 24 in the United States involving synthetic opioids alone—not mixed with other ...

A new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report shows Nevada is one of two states that saw a rise in predicted drug overdose ...

Preliminary data from the Kitsap Public Health District found opioid overdoses dropped in 2024, the first decline in six years.

While new information shows a big nationwide decline in fatal drug overdoses, the trend has not yet reached Alaska, which appears on track to record its second-highest year of overdose deaths on ...

New York is getting a long-awaited reprieve from its overdose crisis, with deaths falling by nearly a third in the last year.