Drug overdoses are increasing for the first time in years and health experts are trying to figure out why - Street drug ...

The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This ...

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—just as harm reduction was beginning to work ...

But America’s drug crisis hasn’t gone away — while overdose mortality rates are continuing to decline, with less than 81,000 deaths in the 12 months recorded up to November 2024, those ...

America’s overdose death toll fell sharply in 2024, with fentanyl deaths down nearly 37 percent. But experts warn the crisis ...

We call them addicts. Users. Drug seekers — and we see them as less than human.   We often assume unhoused people ...

Dr. Stephen Loyd is the chief medical officer of Cedar Recovery, president of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners and a ...

Somewhat paradoxically, squeezing supply can increase the risk of fatal overdose. If the Trump administration could squash ...

In a bold and unflinching op-ed titled "We Need to Start Drug Testing Every Government Employee to Save Our Economy," David ...

It isn’t an exaggeration to say Pennsylvania’s opioid and fentanyl epidemic is the public health challenge of our time.