Category: Health and Society

More than 107000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021.

By Casey Harper | The Center Square Drug overdoses spiked last year … the increased traffic at the border could be leading to more drug deaths.

“Sadly, a key reason seems to be a surge of organ donors who died from drug overdose.” Using the U.S. organ donation registry, operated by the United …

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data indicating that there were 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. …

It had been almost a year since the 66-year-old Ingram resident’s son died of a heroin overdose. The training, she said, was a way for her to make …

She said the whole idea of supervised consumption sites is to reduce overdose deaths. Calixte said the site will provide sterile supplies for drug …

Nearly 108,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2021, and close to two-thirds of those deaths involved fentanyl or other opioids.

“For a period of time, it looked like we may have seen a decline from 2020 to 2021,” Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs Secretary …

Three men are facing drug charges stemming from an undercover narcotics … was responsible for four out of six overdose deaths in Tennessee.

A recent research paper published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that deadly drug overdose rates in …