Category: Health and Society

They are dying from overdoses of drugs like heroin, cocaine, and now fentanyl. Each drug overdose death is a tragedy that should stir our emotions.

More than 107,000 Americans died from overdoses last year. This drug is behind most deaths. Why is fentanyl so dangerous? The illicit drug has ruined …

Heroin. • Natural opioid analgesics, including morphine and codeine. • Semisynthetic opioids, including drugs such as oxycodone hydrocodone, …

It is estimated 425 Saskatchewan people died of drug overdoses in 2021 — more than double the 179 fatalities recorded in 2019.

A Great Falls woman who admitted distributing meth and fentanyl to an individual who then died of a drug overdose was sentenced to prison Monday.

(The Center Square) — There was a 25.6% increase from the year before in Tennessee drug overdose deaths between December 2020 and December 2021, …

The overdose death counts remain provisional as the CDC continues to collect data and “drug overdose deaths often require lengthy investigations, and …

The Drug Enforcement Administration reported synthetic opioid-related deaths jumped 56 percent from 2020 to 2021. The overdose spike is threatening …

The Centers for Disease Control estimates 107,622 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States during 2021, an increase of nearly 15% from …

Overdose deaths in America rose more than 20% nationwide last year. … Fatal drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death in Virginia, …