Last month, Heinrich, with U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced the HALT Fentanyl Act in the Senate. Earlier this month, Heinrich welcomed the U.S. House of ...

“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 ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios The fatal drug overdose rate fell 4% nationwide and nearly as much in Massachusetts from 2022 to 2023, per new CDC data — but grew notably out West and up in Alaska. Why it ...

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

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.

It's on track to be the lowest death count since July 2020, when the final tally for the previous 12 months was 85,236.

“This is the most recent national data available and shows a continued steep decline in overdose deaths. Provisional data shows about 87,000 drug overdose deaths from October 2023 to September 2024, ...

Preliminary data indicates that overdose deaths in the U.S. dropped 24% last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

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