Sep. 18, 2026 (FOX40.COM) — Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill requiring school resource officers to undergo training in recognizing and responding to opioid overdoses and deaths.

Aug. 6, 2026 On a cold December night in 2023, the staff at Providence Milwaukie Hospital in Milwaukie, Ore., called local police. They wanted help getting one of their patients, a 26-year-old man named Jean Descamps, out of the emergency room.

Aug. 25, 2026 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there were approximately 38,000 opioid-related deaths in the United States in 2025.

Aug. 5, 2026 BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Kratom products are now illegal to sell across the state.

May 28, 2026 Despite a handful of states in the West where overdose deaths are surging, overall street drug fatalities in the U.S. continued to drop at a historic rate in 2025, falling roughly 14% compared with 2024.

June 25 2026 For the third year in a row, accidental drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths have dropped in Los Angeles County, a decline officials attribute to ongoing investments in prevention and harm reduction resources countywide.

July 21 2026 KINGMAN, Ariz. (AZFamily/Gray News) - Just a week after an Arizona woman started taking a kratom supplement, her husband found her unresponsive in their bed.

July 2, 2026 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is planning to temporarily ban products containing certain synthetic versions of kratom, placing them in the same category as heroin and LSD.

June 19, 2026 Cleavotta Morgan said her son, Daejon Morgan, called her every day from his cell at Men’s Central Jail. The 20-year-old inmate would ask her to pass the phone around to different members of the family.

June 15, 2026 The rise of kratom, and especially its potent synthetic derivative 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), feels dangerously familiar. Kratom is a psychoactive substance marketed as natural and medicinal, inadequately regulated, and defended by an industry that resists meaningful oversight

May 13, 2026 Overdose deaths in the U.S. remain high but decreased nearly 14% last year, according to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

April 10, 2026 NEW YORK - Three large-scale, yet unrelated fentanyl packaging operations were dismantled in the Bronx and Manhattan on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.

March 27, 2026 Calls to poison centers in the United States about the widely available herb kratom increased more than 1,200% between 2015 and 2025, new research has found.

May 14, 2026 (NEXSTAR) – For a third consecutive year, fatal drug overdose deaths have declined in the U.S., new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Wednesday. Unfortunately, not every state has followed that trend.

April 24, 2026 SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — One of two non-fentanyl synthetic opioids detected for the first time in a fatal overdose this month in San Francisco is considered to be 10 times stronger than fentanyl, according to a warning issued Friday by the city’s Department of Public Health..

January 10, 2025 In its December newsletter, the San Benito County Opioid Task Force warned about the dangers of the drug Kratom and its derivative 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH).

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July 7, 2025 Los Angeles — Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard...

July 13, 2025 PETALUMA, Calif. (KGO) -- A North Bay couple and their organization is fighting the fentanyl crisis one old newspaper box...

June 4, 2025 During the past year, more than 100 Shasta County businesses have agreed to provide naloxone, a medication used to reverse...