Extreme summer heat can dramatically escalate the risks for alcohol, drug, and psychotropic medication-related emergencies ...

Los Angeles County Public Health Department officials say accidental drug overdose deaths are down for the third year in a ...

Beginning in 2023, there was less fentanyl in the U.S. drug supply. The opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone’s availability is increasing and so is access to addiction treatment. Experts say the ...

When many of us think about drug overdose, we picture young people at a music festival or people dependent on street heroin. But the latest figures from the Penington Institute show older Australians ...

Fewer Americans are dying from drug overdoses than at any point in the past three years, but the substances circulating on ...

Mark Schiefelbein/AP / AP Earlier this year, Naida Rutherford, the coroner in Richland County, South Carolina, was helping investigate what appeared to be a mysterious overdose. The case had many of ...

Source: Castorly Stock / Pexels Most people in the United States know what fentanyl is. They know that a tiny amount of fentanyl can kill you. They know that it can often be found mixed in with other ...

Mark Mitchell said people were making poor decisions and his message was "don't use drugs", following a spate of overdoses.

People using TikTok to discuss drug addiction could actually help experts predict fatal overdoses, a new study has suggested. Researchers from Stanford University said comments on the video-sharing ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Hundreds of people die in San Francisco every year from accidental drug overdoses. 2025 was tragically no different, with 621 deaths recorded, the city’s Department of Public ...

Nonfatal overdoses, meanwhile, have increased since 2025, although experts caution against drawing any conclusions about that ...