New research shows adults 65 and older are one of the fastest-growing groups affected as synthetic opioids drive most U.S. overdose deaths.

CDC reports 80,000 US overdose deaths in 2024, down from 110,000 the year prior. It’s the largest annual decline in overdose deaths since tracking began 45 years ago. Experts point to expanded ...

Through collaboration across the community, those troubling statistics have been reversed. The number of overdose deaths has trended downward over the past five years, decreasing from 45 deaths by ...

Rates of drug overdose deaths have decreased. Some experts think wider availability of overdose reversal medications has helped. The rate of drug overdose deaths fell about 4% across the country from ...

Northwest Health Services is sharing free online resources from Narcan and information about free in-person training, seeking to better educate people on how to respond to an opioid overdose situation ...

Progress in reducing the number of overdose deaths has been made throughout Pennsylvania over the past year, but officials ...

The FDA said April 30 it has approved a higher dose of naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose. Nasal sprays will now be available containing 8 milligrams of naloxone. Previously, the highest ...

New research from the University of Missouri St. Louis’s Addiction Science team found a 26% drop in overdoses statewide and a 36% decrease in opioid overdoses. The data covered overdose deaths in 2024 ...

LANSING, MI – The state is projecting the third consecutive year of decline in opioid overdose deaths for 2024, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office. On Thursday, June 5, the AG ...

There are 19 naloxone access points on the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus, sponsored by Boynton Health and its partners. Most students walk by them without even ...

The self-server kiosk in front of the emergency department offers no-questions-asked access to naloxone kits that can save lives.

Baltimore leaders discussed strategies for tackling the city's opioid crisis with residents in the same community where 27 people were hospitalized on July 10 in a mass overdose. Inside the Gethsamane ...