In 2024, fatal overdose decreased by about 2,200 deaths each month. In 2025, there were about 1,000 fewer deaths each month.

There's a new demand to drop a deeply misleading name. The CDC can't undo all the damage since 2019. But it can stop ...

The deaths throw more focus on efforts to close the notorious jail complex, as Mamdani begins moving some vulnerable people ...

I n 2020 when I was nearing the end of my 10-year prison sentence, I started repeatedly bugging Tennessee Department of ...

Methadone is used safely by millions around the world. The problem with it isn’t diversion or dangerous interactions, it’s ...

This landmark, following mass-migration to safer options, means less suffering and death. But will other countries learn the obvious lesson?

A central problem with this type of legislation is that it says MOUD access must be uninterrupted, while only offering it at ...

Much of the department's 2027 budget request presents the AHA as an agency that already exists, despite Congress having so ...

A Rhode Island law regulating kratom sales is now in effect, making the state the first to overturn a former Schedule I ban ...

Medetomidine is the direct successor to xylazine. It's not associated with soft-tissue infections, but has distinct side ...

The proposal cuts most HUD grant programs, but allocates $152 million to start work on Alcatraz. There's always money for ...