opioid overdose

Hundreds of bills introduced in the California Legislature earlier this session will be decided during fast-paced hearings held by the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees Sept. 1, including some controversial ...

California authorities have seized highly lethal amounts of fentanyl in San Francisco, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on June ...

Fentanyl is silently killing thousands of youth and young adults as California lawmakers struggle to pass laws preventing ...

Doctors in Australia have called on the New South Wales (NSW) government to take action on instituting a ...

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

Commentary While we will finally be looking at the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror in 2023, we ...

State Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland) has introduced a proposal that would create a pilot program to teach participants—such ...

A new report (pdf) suggests Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions may have led to a near 40 percent spike in opioid-related ...

Commentary WEST VIRGINIA—Craig Hettlinger explains that he started drinking when he was about 16 years old. He escalated ...

The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year—and it may keep getting ...

NEW YORK—The Bronx and Staten Island, as unalike as they may be, share at least two unenviable traits: ...

He knew he was in trouble even before he read the text message: "Did u hear what hapnd ...

Andrew Kornfeld was thrusted into the spotlight when his father, famed addiction specialist, Howard Kornfeld sent him to ...

A group of 20 lawmakers backs a bill to require more rigorous medical training for police officers, borne ...

There has been a wave of overdoses, some fatal, in the Sacramento area in California and the suspicion falls ...

More than 17,000 people are dying every year in the United States from opioid overdoses. Emergency room admissions for ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va.—Dr. John Aldis had no way of knowing when he graduated from medical school 44 years ago ...

Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, is a medicine that temporarily reverses the effects of opioid drugs such as ...

Residents of this town in northern Burma's opium country became their own drug investigators out of frustration with ...