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

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

While the U.S. has recently seen a welcome downturn in drug overdose deaths, a new study from Northwestern Medicine is the ...

Since the height of the opioid crisis in 2021, the outlook has improved in much of the country, including in Baltimore.

A health secretary who systematically ignores mention of the major killer of adult Americans is clearly not interested in ...

Drug overdose deaths in the Chicago area mirror a statewide and national trend showing a sharp decline from 2023 to 2024.

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

People who survive overdoses are far more likely to have a brain injury than the general population. I've been wondering if ...

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

Deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide dropped sharply in South Carolina and across the nation in 2023. Some prevention ...

A substance abuse epidemic is impacting Black communities and resulting in higher mortality rates due to lack of access to appropriate care.