Laredo overdose deaths dropped 52% in 2024. City and community leaders emphasize that progress depends on continued harm ...

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 ...

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

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

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

Recently released statistics from the CDC are shedding a light on drug overdose deaths in the nation. Ohio had one of the ...

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

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 ...

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

Compared to 2023, drug overdose deaths dropped in New York by nearly 32 percent in 2024, going closer to pre-pandemic levels, outpacing the nation while doing s ...