A more timely indicator of overdoses — nonfatal suspected overdose patients in hospital emergency departments — was down 7 ...

Illicit drug overdoses and the deaths they cause are trending down this year, despite spikes in a handful of states, ...

We can’t solve what we can’t measure, so let’s use opioid abatement funds to help. Comprehensive toxicology would let us ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says opioid overdose deaths hit the highest level ever recorded in the United States last year. A DEA report obtained by The Associated Press ...

Colorado is facing another deadly year of fentanyl overdoses, and a new ballot measure could soon reshape how the state ...

A class of synthetic drugs called nitazines have been around since the 1950s — but are quickly gaining a foothold in street drugs.

Lawmakers and narcotics experts say that the Trump administration’s efforts to tie Venezuela to the U.S. fentanyl crisis are ...

One of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one of every 70 will die from overdoses A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine calculates ...

DETECTIVE Scott BJerkos, who has investigated hundreds of fentanyl deaths, warns the drug is now being found in eye drops.