Ten years after Carroll County leaders launched a memorial to mourn lives lost to drug addiction, data show that overdose ...

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 in 2024 to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new CDC ...

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

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 ...

Drug overdoses have been a point of focus for lawmakers in recent years, particularly alongside the rise of illicit fentanyl ...

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.

Compared to 2023, drug overdose deaths dropped in New York by nearly 32 percent in 2024, going closer to pre-pandemic levels, ...

CHI Health plans to begin rolling out the clinical practices, which reduced use of benzodiazepines and opioids in the hospital's psychiatric unit, across Nebraska and Iowa.

That year-on-year drop is the steepest single-year decline since the government first began keeping track of overdose deaths 45 years ago. It means that drug deaths are now finally coming back ...

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