Category: Health and Society

The Vancouver site is often referenced as a model — with about 1,700 people using it each month, the center is credited with reducing overdose deaths …

An estimated 1250 people died of a drug overdose in Philadelphia in 2021. It is critical we use whatever tools we can to help prevent further …

Jerry Brown vetoed a proposal passed by the Legislature four years ago, even as deaths from accidental overdoses were skyrocketing in the United …

But across the West Midlands, out of 417 drug poisoning deaths in 2021, 231 involved opiates, including heroin, while 84 involved cocaine. New …

… including Los Angeles — to open facilities where addicts can self-administer illicit drugs without fear of arrest or a fatal overdose.

An increase in drug deaths reflected the impact of the pandemic. … of drug use makes the user increasingly susceptible to a fatal overdose.”.

Today drug overdose deaths will claim almost three hundred American lives — thanks to stigma. The labels and stereotypes so many of us use are …

They are asking us to help them address the escalations and crisis of overdose deaths that we’re experiencing in California.

“Meth is a particularly dangerous drug for both users and first responders … The study found that opioid overdose deaths in 2020 were increasing …

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, fentanyl is one of the most common drugs associated with drug overdose deaths in the United …