Data: CDC; Note: 2024 data is provisional and may be underreported; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Louisiana's drug overdose deaths fell 35.2% between 2023 and 2024, according to preliminary CDC data, an ...

Warmth leaves their body. Skin loses color. Breaths slow. And no matter how hard you try, they don't respond to shaking. Screaming. Pleading.

More than half of the opioid settlement dollars spent by localities across West Virginia last fiscal year went to law ...

Pennsylvania classified a largely unknown but extremely potent synthetic opioid as a controlled substance. Nitazenes are a ...

Nitazene is a synthetic opioid that is banned in the United States. "Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that can be ...

Fentanyl continues to destroy lives through overdoses, especially adolescents and young adults. Too many people are unaware ...

A key Senate committee has included a variety of marijuana and psychedelics-related provisions in a report attached to a pair ...

They’re practical solutions to some of the barriers that exist in how people access substance-abuse treatment and how we ...

Baltimore leaders discussed strategies for tackling the city's opioid crisis with residents in the same community where 27 ...

Bipartisan HALT Fentanyl Act signed by Trump aims to end the "cat and mouse" game with drug traffickers by permanently ...

Trump signed a bill to keep stiff sentences for fentanyl trafficking, among the most serious crimes the Drug Enforcement ...

Illegal opioids can create substantial harms, but the extent of those harms depends on multiple factors, including the amount ...