“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 ...

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

Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new federal ...

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

Mikayla Brown and her husband, Tyler, visit the grave of their son, Elijah, who died of a fentanyl overdose at ...

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% ...

New federal data reveals a 4% decrease in drug overdose deaths in the US from 2022 to 2023, a drop influenced by expanded treatment programs and reduced fentanyl potency. Experts suggest treatment ...

There were rapid increases in overdoses involving heroin starting in 2010, which the CDC considers the second wave, but synthetic opioids – primarily fentanyl – took over around 2013.

The vast majority of all overdose deaths in Tri-Cities are related to fentanyl or a combination of fentanyl and another drug.