Drug Overdose

ATLANTA—Rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose, the medical examiner’s office in Georgia confirmed. The cause of death for the hip-hop performer, born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, was ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said California seized 62,224 pounds of fentanyl last year, a 1,066 percent increase since 2021.

Commentary The calendar turns to 2024, and the world under President Joe Biden’s watch is burning. The United ...

News Analysis Despite the passage of state and federal laws that were supposed to reduce fatal drug overdoses, the annual U.S. drug overdose ...

Drug overdose death is a crisis in San Francisco, and this year the city is on track to ...

Amid a rapidly growing fentanyl crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that aims to help law enforcement ...

Among those who died, 79 percent tested positive for fentanyl and about 50 percent from methamphetamines or cocaine, ...

Videos from San Francisco on social media show morgue vans loading people folded up and contorted in unnatural ...

Biden Administration commits $450 million on Overdose Awareness Day to combat overdose crisis, strengthen prevention, support treatment, and ...

Some federal employees in California are told to avoid the office at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in ...

Fentanyl toxicity has been ruled as the cause of the death of former child actor Austin Majors, who ...

Ｗith a number of bills winding their way through the California Legislature, one such measure shielding those who ...

Some residents in Santa Monica, an idyllic beach town in Southern California, are pushing for an outdoor county-operated ...

Los Angeles County homeless deaths have increased by 55 percent, mainly because of a rise in drug overdoses, ...

Commentary Deadly drugs, illegal immigrants, masked men killing hostages, and a failed state whose “president” is reaching out ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on March 14 that if elected, his government would launch a "massive" series ...

Commentary The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, working-age Americans were dying of non-COVID-19 causes at a rate about 25 percent above ...

LOS ANGELES—The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of an overdose in a bathroom at Bernstein High ...

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal Oct. 18 to place the overdose-reversal ...

As the dual forces of the pandemic and fentanyl drive up overdose deaths, bail reform is inflaming the ...

On the morning of the last day of his life, Adam Rashid called his parents to tell them ...

LOS ANGELES—A Beverly Hills man who was already facing sex-related counts involving seven women over a 13-year period ...

LOS ANGELES—During the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, overall deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES—The rate of overdose deaths among U.S. teenagers nearly doubled in 2020, the first year of the ...

SAN DIEGO—A San Diego resident who sold fentanyl pills to another man, resulting in the victim's fatal overdose, ...

As the fentanyl epidemic leads hundreds to an early death each year in Orange County, the county’s Board ...