On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder ...

Ten years after Carroll County leaders launched a memorial to mourn lives lost to drug addiction, data show that overdose ...

Fatal overdoses of fentanyl, though still high in Kern County, have dropped precipitously this year, mirroring national ...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States in 2024 to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new CDC ...

Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...

CHI Health plans to begin rolling out the clinical practices, which reduced use of benzodiazepines and opioids in the ...

Drug overdoses have been a point of focus for lawmakers in recent years, particularly alongside the rise of illicit fentanyl ...

Fatal drug overdoses among youth aged 15 to 24 in the United States involving synthetic opioids alone—not mixed with other ...

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.

That year-on-year drop is the steepest single-year decline since the government first began keeping track of overdose deaths 45 years ago. It means that drug deaths are now finally coming back ...

New York is getting a long-awaited reprieve from its overdose crisis, with deaths falling by nearly a third in the last year.

Washington recorded a 12% drop in drug overdose deaths in 2024, as the country sees its largest decline in history. A variety ...