There would have been too much shame for her in that. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the drug-overdose death rate among women ages 30 to 64 skyrocketed 260% from 1999 ...

(AP) — A convicted drug trafficker who helped dismember and bury the body of a West Virginia woman in Georgia following a fatal overdose was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison Thursday.

Jan. 26—The woman charged with murder and manslaughter in two overdose cases last year has changed her plea in both cases. Yashica Shenay Thomas, 43, has changed her plea to guilty for felony third ...

BREAK*** ***ED*** NEW TONIGHT: 5 Investigates discovering a NEW threat could now be helping fuel the overdose epidemic in Massachusetts. ***MARIA*** It’s an animal tranquilizer mixed with opioids.

BREAK*** ***ED*** NEW TONIGHT: 5 Investigates discovering a NEW threat could now be helping fuel the overdose epidemic in Massachusetts. ***MARIA*** It’s an animal tranquilizer mixed with opioids.

A new study shows that reducing restrictions on buprenorphine, a medication that can treat opioid use disorder, did not lead to an increase in overdose deaths involving the treatment. The findings ...

AUGUSTA — Illicit drugs and people who are using alone are the primary driving forces behind the record number of Mainers who died from a drug overdose last year, the state’s director of ...

The Food and Drug Administration aims to conduct priority reviews of at least two product applications for granting over-the-counter status to intranasal formulations of naloxone, an overdose ...

Measures enacted in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase access to buprenorphine did not lead to an increase in the proportion of overdose deaths involving the drug, new research ...

Additionally, the study found that 92.7% of buprenorphine-involved overdose deaths also involved at least one other drug, compared to 67.2% of deaths involving an opioid other than buprenorphine ...