A new harm reduction initiative has been launched in the City of Richmond to help prevent overdoses and support those living ...

Rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, he was discharged a few hours later. The fact that he had snorted all of the ...

Massachusetts experienced a more than 36% decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths in 2024, the state Substance Addiction ...

The criminal justice system has been the federal government's main avenue for tackling drug addiction since President Richard Nixon effectively launched the "War on Drugs" in 1971. But drug overdose ...

On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream ...

A Canadian study finds that as fentanyl use began increasing in 2014, opioid agonist treatment duration with methadone or ...

Nearly $39 million from settlements with eight drug companies will start flowing to the state’s fund as early as next year, adding to the existing pot of more than $3 billion to support opioid ...

Two sergeants have administered the life-saving nasal spray Naloxone to two people suffering from a drug overdose in Sheffield and Doncaster.

A Greater Manchester MP has called for GMP to change its policy and the region's Deputy Mayor, Kate Green, is to demand an ...

Audio from emergency dispatches show a single call for help for a 27-year-old woman quickly spiraled into a much larger ...

Now, experts say, fentanyl, a cheap, synthetic opiate originally dreamed up to treat people with end-of-life cancer, is either trekked in across the U.S.’s southern border by American mules, where ...

Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution ...