Category: Health and Society

In 2015, 1,451people died. In 2019, that number grew to a little over 2,000 Tennesseans dying of a drug overdose. The Tennessee Department of Health reports the …

The courts, police and social services agencies in Prince William County and Manassas are all trying to do more to stem the rise in opioid addiction and …

Typically, when doctors want their patients to take a drug, they write a prescription, … are no longer a major driver of opioid addictions and deaths.

Top news and notes from around Northern Virginia and beyond. 5. Overdoses on the rise. The number of overdoses and overdose deaths in the Prince William …

Drug abuse gives rise to multiple socio-economic problems. It results in suicides and drug overdose deaths; impedes their physical, mental, intellectual and …

Police have arrested and charged a Fort Fairfield woman in connection with a drug overdose death. Fort Fairfield Fire Rescue and Fort Fairfield police …

New data from the Alberta government shows 898 Albertans died of a drug overdose between January and July. Of those deaths, 96 per cent can be attributed to …

Law enforcement officers and first responders are taxed with an alarming trend as they are called to a rising number of overdoses from a drug disguised as …

Nurses say immediate action needed in wake of Calgary health-care worker’s apparent overdose death. Mental health and addiction challenges existed before the …

LIHU’E — As Kaua’i, like the rest of the U.S., continues to reckon with an opioid–abuse crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, …