A 54-year-old woman says she ended up at the hospital after taking a popular weight loss drug. Leslie Gammon from North ...

Overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants have skyrocketed among seniors, increasing 9,000% in just eight years. Once thought to affect mainly the young, the opioid epidemic’s fourth wave ...

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Losing a loved one to drug overdose has been a common experience for many Americans in recent years, crossing political and socioeconomic divides and boosting the perceived importance of the overdose ...

Deaths from fentanyl — the synthetic, often deadly opioid frequently present in illicit street drugs — have contributed to the United States’ soaring opioid overdose deaths in the last decade.

A woman looks at photos of those lost to drug overdoses in Edmonton, Alberta, to mark International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31. Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, a moment to ...

Beginning in 2023, there was less fentanyl in the U.S. drug supply. The opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone’s availability is increasing and so is access to addiction treatment. Experts say the ...

Experts attribute the change to a smaller fentanyl supply, an aging population of people susceptible to fentanyl addiction and public health responses, among other reasons.

Taunton hosts an overdose awareness event at Davol Park on Aug 26 featuring recovery support and family activities.

Nevada overdose rates have dropped by 2% since last year, but that’s a smaller decline than in most of the rest of the ...