Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah Beckman, left, stands with other staff members of Ohio's Hamilton County Quick Response Team in an undated photo. The team ...

Between 2004 and 2022, overdose deaths related to opioid and polysubstance use increased across the United States.

Drug overdose deaths are plummeting in the U.S. in ways never seen before. Experts worry new, toxic "synthetic" street drugs ...

Efforts to combat the opioid crisis in Arkansas focus on treatment and education, as fentanyl and methamphetamine drive overdose deaths, summit leaders say.

A new synthetic opioid more potent than fentanyl was connected to an overdose death this month for the first time in San ...

Overdose deaths from opioids are falling sharply, down 35.6% in 2024 from the previous year, according to the Illinois ...

The office of Milwaukee County Executive released on Tuesday, April 21, new data that shows overdose and opioid overdose ...

Opioids were involved in one out of every 65 deaths in the U.S. in 2016. For younger adults, that number jumped to one in five deaths, a study published in JAMA Network Open found. Research was ...

Fatal overdoses in Milwaukee County are down, but public officials say that the fight isn't over as people still battle ...

Two-thirds of drug deaths around the world were caused by opioids in 2017, and that proportion was even higher in the U.S., where overdose deaths reached a new high, according to a report from the ...

Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the ...