Health officials credited measures including large-scale investments in drug treatment and overdose prevention for a sharp ...

The latest available data, compiled in January of this year, shows fatal overdoses over the previous 12-month period ...

The notable decrease in deaths includes a 37% decline in fentanyl-related deaths and a 20% drop in methamphetamine-related ...

Conducted by Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC), this analysis is part of an annual data ...

While overdose-related deaths in Connecticut are on the decline — the number dropped last year to 982, a 26% reduction from ...

Law enforcement cannot fight fentanyl alone. As we enter the summer months — when overdose rates often rise — we need ...

The county recorded 2,438 drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths in 2024, down from 3,137 deaths in 2023 — the lowest ...

Due to the drug's high strength, multiple doses of naloxone could be required to reverse an overdose. The drug's reemergence ...

Opioid overdoses nationwide have declined significantly since fall of 2023, but not in Alaska. One thing Alaska experts ...

While a wave of books and Netflix docudramas has promoted an oversimplified and often misleading storyline, new data from the ...

Drug overdose deaths among Black Bostonians fell by nearly 60% last year. It's an achievement to be recognized, but much work ...