Category: Health and Society

“Opioid overdoses and deaths continue to be a nationwide epidemic, which directly affects citizens of Pasquotank County,” the spokesperson wrote.

Cook County is on track to double the number of opioid-related deaths from 2019, officials said at a press conference Tuesday. While African …

The state’s drug death increase comes as overdose deaths are inching up nationally following a decline that began around December 2017 from …

In the first four months of 2020, EMS calls for opioid overdoses spiked 72% from the year before, according to Chicago Department of Public Health. At …

In the first four months of 2020, EMS calls for opioid overdoses spiked 72% from the year before, according to Chicago Department of Public Health.

… overdoses here in the city at this time of the year,” said Police Chief Frank Clark, “but the recent spike and this number of overdoses and deaths over …

Nineteen Nova Scotians have died of opioid overdoses so far in 2020. Although she said the East Coast has not been hit as hard by the opioid epidemic …

The number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Guelph 2020 has doubled … In 2019, seven people died from overdoses in Guelph, according to …

From Jan. 1 to May 25 this year, the Trumbull County coroner confirmed 37 accidental overdose deaths — and of those, 14 occurred in May.

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