A new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report shows Nevada is one of two states that saw a rise in predicted drug overdose ...

While overdose deaths in New York state have declined overall, racial disparities have widened, and uncertainty around ...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States in 2024 to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new CDC ...

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...

New York is getting a long-awaited reprieve from its overdose crisis, with deaths falling by nearly a third in the last year.

Fatal drug overdoses among youth aged 15 to 24 in the United States involving synthetic opioids alone—not mixed with other ...

NY Governor Hochul reports a 32% drop in drug overdose deaths in 2024, highlighting the state's successful opioid crisis ...

While new information shows a big nationwide decline in fatal drug overdoses, the trend has not yet reached Alaska, which appears on track to record its second-highest year of overdose deaths on ...

Overdose deaths in Oregon went down 22% in 2024, the Oregon Health Authority announced on Friday. The decrease follows a ...

Drug overdoses remain the leading cause of death among Americans ages 18 to 44, according to the CDC. Recent funding cuts by the White House threaten to reverse the declines in overdose deaths.

Virginia's reduction in fentanyl overdose deaths ranks as the second-highest drop nationwide, behind only West Virginia.