These days, it seems like the hardest thing to come across in the United States of America is something that all of us can celebrate as unambiguous good news. Well, you would think the steady and ...

The number of drug overdose deaths continued to fall in 2025, albeit at a slower pace than the year prior, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows. The data, released ...

U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths ...

U.S. overdose deaths declined in 2025, though at a slower pace than the previous year, according to CDC data released Jan. 14. The data comes as HHS is reversing more than $2 billion in cuts to ...

For many years, the United States has waged a bitter battle against fentanyl. The president went as far as to sign an executive order calling the highly addictive and extremely potent synthetic opiate ...

U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Six puppies in rural Washington state will soon be up for adoption after being revived after a suspected drug overdose — and some of them might go home with the fire-station staff who ...

A nationwide drop in overdose deaths may be driven by a collapse of the international fentanyl supply chain in 2023, a Maryland criminologist in world drug markets reported in the journal Science. “We ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Finalized mortality data showed that overdose deaths in the state of New Mexico declined for the second year in a row. Overdose fatalities fell from 1,029 in 2021 to 997 in 2022 ...

SOMERVILLE — A cluster of overdoses, including three that were fatal, in a single weekend has officials and social workers fanning out across Somerville, handing out Narcan, and spreading the word ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Six puppies in rural Washington state will soon be up for adoption after being revived after a suspected drug overdose — and some of them might go home with the fire-station staff who ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — In Central Florida, officials say the opioid crisis is showing signs of improvement — and it’s not just law enforcement or nonprofits leading the charge. Some of the work is happening ...