A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...

The Biden administration is releasing a comprehensive Overdose Prevention Strategy focusing on primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment and recovery support to combat what ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

Editor's Note: After this story was published, NPR reported that the CDC would be able to fully fund the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program ahead of a budget deadline, citing a CDC leader and ...

2023 was a year of heartbreak for thousands of people who lost loved ones to overdose. It was the deadliest year on record — in the United States, more than 110,000 people died from a drug overdose.

Like in Butler County, the number of overdose deaths statewide is shrinking, according to the state Department of Drug and ...

A new report shows that Pennsylvania’s current overdose prevention program saved thousands of lives last year.

The county's Medical Examiner is calling to pivot addiction prevention and treatment efforts to address rising cocaine ...

Marin County is set to receive $800,000 annually for nine years from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies, officials said this week. The county, which has an average of one resident dying from ...

As the opioid overdose crisis continues to harm people across Connecticut, there is an urgent need to take bold action. One of the most promising solutions, supported by decades of evidence, is the ...

Project Weber/RENEW on July 10, 2025. The center provides harm reduction and recovery services and sits next to the Rhode Island Hospital campus in Providence. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This ...

BRAINERD — The Minnesota Department of Health awarded more than 55 overdose prevention grants and contracts to community-based organizations, health systems, tribal nations, counties and other ...