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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

Six months after the death of a 1-year-old girl in Syracuse, Police announce the arrest of her father.On October 31, 2024 ...

Langabeer leads the Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System, or Heroes, program, which helps individuals looking for ...

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.

Compared to 2023, drug overdose deaths dropped in New York by nearly 32 percent in 2024, going closer to pre-pandemic levels, outpacing the nation while doing s ...

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

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 ...