“It is unprecedented to see predicted overdose deaths drop by more than 27,000 over a single year,” Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, Director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, stated ...

Nearly 87,000 Americans died from drug overdose in the United States in the 12-month period ending September 2024, a decline ...

New federal data reveals a 4% decrease in drug overdose deaths in the US from 2022 to 2023, a drop influenced by expanded ...

A 23-year-old mother has been charged with second-degree murder over her child's fentanyl-related death that happened last ...

Spokane Police Chief Kevin Hall told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that the economic toll of fentanyl is staggering as China ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia’s state Senate passed a bill to increase penalties for anyone caught with fentanyl. New data from the CDC finds drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia’s state Senate passed a bill to increase penalties for anyone caught with fentanyl. New data from the CDC finds drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% ...

Senate Bill 79, dubbed the “Fentanyl Eradication and Removal Act,” passed out of the Senate with bipartisan support.

Seventeen people were arrested, and prepackaged cocaine, marijuana, dozens of firearms, cash and even fentanyl were ...

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT This is the fewest overdose deaths in any 12-month period since June 2020, according to the CDC. The Trump administration has said destroying the fentanyl supply chain and ...