The suspect contended a urine test was positive for fentanyl because he had applied lidocaine "to a sensitive area of his ...

Federal agents arrested nearly two dozen people in a coordinated takedown of an alleged Philadelphia drug trafficking network ...

The effort follows a string of child shootings in north St. Louis. Organizers handed out 200 gun locks and plan to host ...

The kiosks provide free, direct and discrete access to fentanyl test strips and naloxone, an easily administered drug that reverses opioid overdoses.

Strips to test drugs for fentanyl have been legal in Georgia for a few years now, but a new law legalizes them more broadly.

The Healey Driscoll Administration is working to pass a bill meant to aid cities and towns, dubbed the "Municipal Empowerment ...

Staten Island is outpacing the rest of the city by a wide margin in reducing deaths from overdoses that have been linked ...

A strong veterinary sedative called medetomidine was found in two drug samples collected following a mass overdose earlier ...

Three mass overdose incidents, when roughly 45 people overdosed, have shaken Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood since July.

Fatal overdoses in the US are falling - and Kayla's state of North Carolina is at the forefront of that trend.

Officials say they want to build on this momentum because they’re not satisfied until the total number of overdoses hits zero ...