Category: Health and Society

In Virginia, opioid overdose deaths have been steadily increasing over the last decade, with heroin deaths up more than 1,056 percent between 2010 …

The latest numbers from the coroners service show British Columbia recorded 127 drug overdose deaths in September, pushing the province’s death …

Vancouver city council has approved a supervised drug injection site … of deaths in our city, and we know that this proposed overdose prevention site …

So far this year, 1,202 people have died of a fatal overdose compared to a total of 983 deaths for all of 2019. B.C. is in the midst of its second wave of …

About 24 hours later, Allexanne would suffer an overdose after taking a Xanax pill that had been laced with fentanyl. She was declared dead on July 3, …

Overdose deaths in the county dropped to 62 in 2018, and dropped again in 2019, to 35. Through August of this year, though, St. Joseph County already …

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Advocates say the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated drug overdoses in New York, and that more action is needed …

Males accounted for 80% of deaths. Overdose death rates have decreased in recent months from highs in May, June and July. Illicit drug toxicity death …

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Advocates say the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated drug overdoses in New York, and that more action is needed by …

According to recent studies, drug overdose is the leading cause of death among people under age 50. In Nashville, deaths related to opioid abuse …