drug overdoses

The City of Belleville has declared a state of emergency in response to a growing number of drug overdoses that is leaving local emergency personnel, hospitals, and municipal services “close ...

Oregon House Republican lawmakers shared details on Jan. 11 of a proposal to roll back Measure 110—a first-in-the-nation ...

Welcome to the homeless encampment disease trifecta: the unhygienic camps themselves, the infectious illnesses they spawn, and the ...

According to the data, the most significant increase in overdose deaths was among the 35 to 44 age ...

Damien Hinds said new drug units would be installed in British jails to cope with the crisis after ...

More than a dozen Canadian medical doctors specializing in addiction have written the federal government to voice their ...

Montreal public health says it's investigating a series of overdoses in downtown Montreal Sunday that sent six people ...

Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, a grandson of American actor Robert De Niro, died last month after overdosing on ...

Ottawa police say nearly two dozen people suffered drug overdoses over the weekend in the country's capital city. ...

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) June 22 voted to move forward with a plan to ...

Commentary PENN HILLS, Pa.—When the Penn Hills police and paramedics arrived at the modest suburban Pittsburgh home in ...

British Columbia, which recently decriminalized the possession of small amounts of hard drugs, set a record in March for ...

LOS ANGELES—Three people who may have overdosed on drugs were found dead April 5 inside an apartment building ...

As drug legalization groups and the cannabis industry lobby to legalize marijuana across the United States, with legalization ...

Strung out on drugs half her life, Brandi Edwards, 29, said the longest she held a job before ...

Mothers Against Drug Deaths held a rally in San Francisco on Aug. 21, the first National Fentanyl Prevention ...

Commentary Everyone should be deeply troubled by the recent report that the Army is on pace to miss ...

The United States had a record number of drug overdose deaths in 2021, despite a decades-long effort to ...

Despair can be a killer. As an example, drug overdose deaths in the United States increased by 25 percent from ...

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) has seized a massive quantity of the deadly opioid fentanyl—enough to kill ...

Commentary WILLS, Pa.—Andrew Ayers is busy working on loading and unloading several machines at Guy Chemical—a massive, 30,000-square-foot ...

A joint federal and local drug task force seized a record 1.7 million fentanyl pills in mid-December in ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—San Francisco continues to face a drug overdose epidemic, as the number of overdose fatalities in ...

On a September afternoon, Allyssia Solorio wondered why her energetic young brother hadn’t emerged from his bedroom in ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif.—Five individuals were hospitalized after overdosing on what is believed to be fentanyl after they were found ...

A former NFL linebacker was found dead in Florida early on Thursday after an apparent drug overdose, police ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—In a virtual international press conference on June 2, drug experts voiced their concerns about what ...