Category: Health and Society

The measure to remove the discount for medications such as Oxycodone targets the addictive drugs after years of rising fatal overdoses.

Four people have died from drug overdoses in Brisbane over the past week and six more have been left critically ill. And in Perth three young people …

“This is a public health and a public safety crisis if there ever was one,” said Haney. “The open drug use and overdose deaths in our city are increasing …

SAN DIEGO — After a season that saw the opioid-overdose death of a 27-year-old pitcher, Major League Baseball and the players’ union on Thursday …

Admissions to addiction treatment programs in San Francisco have dropped by 20% over the past five years, even as drug use and overdose deaths …

Zakora’s family claims he died from an overdose of fentanyl, which they say flowed into the prison through a drug-smuggling ring run by the guards …

“This case involves fentanyl and a $125 drug transaction that led to the untimely deaths of a father and his 13-month old son,” Fallin said.

Four people have died from drug overdoses in Brisbane over the past week and … The spike has prompted an urgent health warning from police and …

Opioid overdose deaths declined in Allegany County from four in 2017 to one in 2018, while the number of emergency room visits for overdoses were …

Nationwide, drug overdoses, suicides and pregnancy-related chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure are …