Even before a new state law went into effect Jan. 1 requiring public libraries to have opioid overdose-reversing medication ...

AMA released its 2025 Report on Substance Use and Treatment, revealing a positive trend in recent fatal overdoses from ...

Among patients with opioid overdose, bradycardia on initial vital signs was associated with a higher likelihood of xylazine ...

Researchers have identified bradycardia—an abnormally low heart rate—as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This ...

The monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia has reached new heights despite a significant and steady decline in ...

Medications have become our go-to treatments for opioid addiction. Though life-saving, their downsides are underappreciated ...

The West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force office is based at Lake and Pulaski, what it considers ground zero for the city’s ...

Data shows New Jersey recorded 2,816 overdose deaths in 2023. That’s about an 11 percent decline from the prior year, with ...

Drug Free Duval & Jacksonville Transportation Authority offered free opioid overdose prevention training and Narcan at the Winston Family YMCA.

A federally recognized tribe in California is suing the Indian Health Service for unlawfully rejecting a proposal for an ...

The number of opioid overdose deaths and homicides dropped in Cook County last year. Preliminary data show that Cook County ...