Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the ...

Reductions in overall opioid prescribing and high-dose utilization followed the 2016 guidance, building on declines that ...

Drug overdoses remain one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. Researchers have designed a new type of vaccine that blocks the dangerous effects of oxycodone and fentanyl.

The number of South Dakotans who died from drug overdoses continued to decrease in 2025, but many of those deaths were ...

A synthetic opioid, cychlorphine, has emerged in the Midwest, raising concerns for first responders. It is 10 times more ...

The Missouri Department of Public Safety and other state departments wrote in their alert that nitazene can be five to 10 times more potent than fentanyl. Recent wastewater surveillance reports from ...

B projectbegan with cold-calling Indianapolis residents. As director of community outreach at Overdose Lifeline, she tried to ...

The report, by Wisconsin Policy Forum, found that every state prison and at least 53 county jails provide medications for ...

A Minnesota mother is calling for tighter rules on kratom and 7-OH after losing her son to an opioid overdose.

Opioid-class drugs are commonly prescribed as powerful pain medications in both humans and animals, though they can also be accessed or used illicitly. These substances carry a significant risk of ...

This week's Trivia Tuesday question revisits a device designed to prevent opioid overdoses. Why did readers respond so ...

A Baltimore man will serve six years in prison after his infant grandson’s fatal overdose in 2023, a judge ruled Tuesday. Court records show Steven Heggie Sr. pleaded guilty last June to involuntary ...