Overdose deaths increased in Nevada and four other states as national numbers declined, according to provisional data ...

Overdose deaths declined for the second year in a row, fanning health experts’ hopes that the opioid crisis could be turning ...

Experts are unsure as to what is causing the decline, which saw deaths decrease by some 14% between June 2023 and 2024.

Opioid overdose deaths have decreased for 12 months, with 70,655 predicted deaths through June 2024, down from 86,401 in June ...

NEW YORK — The decline in U.S. drug overdose deaths appears to have continued this year, giving experts hope the nation is ...

The number of overdose-related deaths in one Massachusetts town has more than doubled in the last year, officials said ...

A new CDC report shows at least 16,000 lives were saved over a 12-month period. Experts say the U.S. is experiencing the ...

Tahira Malik went into her pile of NARCAN boxes and drug screening kits to demonstrate what she and her partners give out at weekly resources fairs aimed at preventing overdoses. Malik operates ...

U.S. overdose deaths declined in 2023 in a recent report, according to the CDC. Locally, those on the front lines of addiction hope to continue that trend. In Cape Girardeau, The Gibson Center ...

The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people while continuing to rise among people of color, according to a new Stateline ...

CHILLICOTHE— Governor Mike DeWine recently celebrated the release of The Ohio Department of Health’s 2023 Ohio Unintentional Drug Overdose Report which showed that overdose deaths in Ohio have ...

Naloxone has a half-life of around two hours after nasal administration, but the new synthetic opioid fentanyl – which is responsible for tens of thousands of overdose-related deaths every year ...