overdoses

'Approximately seven out of 10 fake pills contain a deadly dose of fentanyl, up from four in 10 pills in 2021,' the DEA said.

Initial samples of drugs found in overdose cases contained xylazine, bromazolam, fentanyl, quinine, and caffeine.

The British Columbia Coroners Service says the province witnessed a record-breaking 2,511 lives lost to drug-related fatalities in ...

Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay $230 million to resolve lawsuits by hundreds of U.S. ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed was forced to cut short an outdoor public hearing held at the United ...

Canadians up to age 44 saw 27 percent more deaths than expected in the last five months of ...

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

TUCSON, Arizona—Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before ...

A steady stream of headlines declare that life expectancy in the United States is decreasing. And an often-cited ...

Ohio Parents Brenden Bickerstaff-Clark and Lacy Wood were drug addicts raising their eight-year-old son Cameron Clark together. Bickerstaff-Clark ...

A 5-year-old student at a Trenton, New Jersey, kindergarten brought 30 packets of heroin to school earlier this ...

CVS pharmacies in Virginia will now offer drug overdose-reversal medication naloxone (commonly known as Narcan), the company and ...

A pharmaceutical company has volunteered to distribute free Narcan Nasal Spray in all U.S. High Schools in conjunction ...

Authorities who are investigating the death of Prince are looking into whether he died of an overdose. Officials ...

In California and Chicago, deaths from the powerful opiate fentanyl have risen in recent days. According to a ...

PITTSBURGH—Investigators were working on arrests linked to roughly 30 nonfatal heroin overdoses in recent days as federal and ...

In late August, truck driver Jeen Blake loaded up his tractor-trailer in Riverside, Calif., for his trip to ...

America's prescription drug abuse problem is stronger than ever. The latest figures (from 2011) reveal more than 17,000 ...

Overdose deaths have spiked in New York City, increasing 41 percent from since 2010, according to new data ...