Illicit drug use among teens has remained low and fairly steady for the past three decades, with some notable declines during the Covid-19 pandemic ... One is that teen overdose deaths have ...

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were 884 teen overdose deaths from illicit fentanyls and synthetics in 2021, up from 680 in 2020 and 253 in 2019.

(Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies) Of course, it would be easy to blame the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic alone for the rise in opioid-use overdose deaths. Heck you ...

SCOTTSDALE,AZ (AZFamily) — A family of a Scottsdale teen who died from a fentanyl overdose is teaming up ... In Maricopa County, fentanyl deaths have risen nearly 5,000% since 2015.

The rate of drug overdose deaths for men increased slightly between 2021 and 2022, 45.1 to 45.6 per 100,000. That same rate for women dropped 1.0% from 19.6 to 19.4 deaths per 100,000. A study ...

PAHO experts warned, however, that the Omicron variant deaths due to COVID-19 last week had increased by 13%, especially in Central and South America, while in Canada, Mexico, and the United ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Life expectancy took a hit during COVID-19, but rebounded some in 2022, at the same time that infant deaths rose and drug overdose deaths reached new highs, according to the ...

The city of Cleveland, Ohio, will pay $4.8 million to the family of a 13-year-old girl who was struck and killed by a car ...

From just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2019 ... for the vast majority of overall opioid overdose deaths, which have climbed to about 80,000 a year. The crisis has received ...

demanding the teen move his car shortly before 8:30 a.m. Thursday, according to cops and police sources. Dominic Cruz Aguilera, 19, was fatally stabbed in the chest during an argument over a ...

A teen driver charged with killing a mom and three kids by racing through a red light at 112 mph was involved in two other major crashes in suburban Seattle — with bodycam footage showing a cop ...