About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data.

Editor’s Note: Olympic High School began offering a Journalism elective to students for the first time this year. The following news and op-ed pieces were produced by three students from the class and ...

A mum-of-three became addicted to medication prescribed for ADHD taking more than seven times the recommended adult dose – a level that should have killed her. Shannon Anderson, 37, was left paranoid, ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...