For years, overdose deaths in North Carolina have been falling, part of a broader national trend that researchers say is ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new harm reduction initiative is helping prevent needless deaths. In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting ...

Researchers say some structural changes in treating addiction are helping, including wider access to overdose reversing ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce ...

TYLER, Texas — Law enforcement officials in Louisiana, Atlanta and, most recently, Houston are warning people to stay away from a highly potent drug called "Gray Death." Like the name implies, merely ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials say they have a crisis on their hands because heroin laced with a synthetic painkiller called fentanyl has hit the streets and the toxic cocktail could end up ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - People across Kansas headed to their local agencies to drop off their prescription medications. Saturday, Oct. 25, marks Drug Take Back Day, a national effort to get prescription ...