MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The turning point in America’s drug overdose (OD) crisis came in August 2023, a new ...

This shift coincided with fentanyl flooding drug supplies and a troubling ... The research makes one thing painfully clear: America’s overdose crisis isn’t fading – it’s changing form ...

Two advocates demand systemic change in addiction treatment that prioritizes safety and accountability above all else.

The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This ...

While the U.S. has recently seen a welcome downturn in drug overdose deaths, a new study from Northwestern Medicine is the ...

But America’s drug crisis hasn’t gone away — while overdose mortality rates are continuing to decline, with less than 81,000 deaths in the 12 months recorded up to November 2024, those ...

The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug ...

At an addiction conference in Nashville, Tenn., in late April, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, ...

America’s overdose death toll fell sharply in 2024, with fentanyl deaths down nearly 37 percent. But experts warn the crisis ...

It isn’t an exaggeration to say Pennsylvania’s opioid and fentanyl epidemic is the public health challenge of our time.

And for Black America, there’s a drug overdose epidemic. “We have historically criminalized ... On the other hand, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline expanded two years ago to support individuals ...