Even before a new state law went into effect Jan. 1 requiring public libraries to have opioid overdose-reversing medication ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Six puppies in rural Washington state will soon be up for adoption after being revived after a suspected drug ...

AMA released its 2025 Report on Substance Use and Treatment, revealing a positive trend in recent fatal overdoses from ...

Researchers have identified bradycardia—an abnormally low heart rate—as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This ...

The monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia has reached new heights despite a significant and steady decline in ...

Among patients with opioid overdose, bradycardia on initial vital signs was associated with a higher likelihood of xylazine ...

A federally recognized tribe in California is suing the Indian Health Service for unlawfully rejecting a proposal for an ...

The West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force office is based at Lake and Pulaski, what it considers ground zero for the city’s ...

Drug Free Duval & Jacksonville Transportation Authority offered free opioid overdose prevention training and Narcan at the Winston Family YMCA.

For the first time since 2014, Cook County recorded fewer than 600 homicides in a year. The medical examiner handled 541 ...

Data shows New Jersey recorded 2,816 overdose deaths in 2023. That’s about an 11 percent decline from the prior year, with ...