Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting the strategy of increasing access to the life ...
Overdose deaths involving opioids, including fentanyl, fell from 2022 to 2023. Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published ...
Roughly one in every three Americans have reported knowing someone who has died of a drug overdose, a new survey found. The ...
Gov. Andy Beshear says drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023. It marks the second straight yearly decline, ...
About one in three Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose, according to a new survey. More than 2,300 adults responded to the survey, which was conducted by researchers from the Johns ...
Opioid-reversal medications save people who are overdosing. But sometimes people don't even realize they took fentanyl in ...
Drug-involved infant deaths more than doubled (120% increase) from 2018 to 2022, with the greatest proportion of deaths in ...
Losing a loved one to drug overdose has been a common experience for many Americans in recent years, crossing political and socioeconomic divides and boosting the perceived importance of the overdose ...
Of the tens of thousands of lives taken nationwide by fentanyl each year, many had no idea they were taking the deadly opioid ...
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 3% drop in drug deaths nationwide in 2023 and ...