October 29, 2024 The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people...

November 22, 2024 San Francisco this past week reported the lowest number of monthly drug overdose deaths in four years, continuing a...

November 21, 2024 Mary Crocker Cook turned her addiction into empowering others, bringing dignity and purpose to people who’ve...

November 22, 2024 As families and friends gather this Thanksgiving, many locally and abroad are giving thanks for a life-changing...

December 8, 2023 (AP) – A federal prison inmate and two other people were charged Tuesday with conspiring to mail drugs to a penitentiary...

December 8, 2023 MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities said Friday they have raided and closed 31 pharmacies in Baja California’s coastal...

November 23, 2023 The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids could help combat...

October 10, 2023 More people without college degrees are dying from drug overdoses than those who went to college, highlighting the need...

September 19, 2023 A New York City day care operator allegedly deleted more than 20,000 messages between her and her husband sent from...

August 5, 2023 Washington CNN — The Biden administration has intensified its focus on tracing cryptocurrency payments that some of the...

June 22, 2023 CNN — WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the...

April 22, 2023 CNN — A poodle named Toodles in Pennsylvania was revived with Narcan after suffering an apparent drug overdose,...

June 29, 2023 CNN — Kouri Richins, the Utah widow accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl overdose and then writing a children’s...

July 2, 2023 (CNN)US Customs and Border Protection officers in California say they stopped the attempted smuggling of fentanyl pills...

Feb 11, 2023 (CNN)Parents across the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD), located in a Dallas, Texas, suburb,...

Feb 16, 2023 If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives the go-ahead, a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan...

Feb 7, 2023 President Biden speaks on the Fentanyl crisis, stating that it is killing "more than 70,000 Americans a year." He introduces...

Feb 8, 2023 In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden highlighted a recent policy change aimed at increasing access...

Feb 3, 2023 Throngs of people hang outside the American Pain clinic in Boca Raton, Florida, waiting their turn. Inside, a doctor greets...

January 7, 2023 CNN — Authorities in New York seized record-breaking amounts of fentanyl powder and fake prescription pills laced with...