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 ...

In 2022, roughly 3.8% of Israelis reported misusing sedatives. By December 2023, that figure had jumped to 10.6%. In the latest round of data, collected in February 2025, the rate remained high at ...

The synthetic opioid fentanyl contributed to at least two of four recent inmate deaths at the Athens-Clarke County Jail and ...

People with any type of substance use disorder (SUD) stand a 24% higher risk of having an unplanned hospital readmission ...

People with any type of substance use disorder (SUD) stand a 24% higher risk of having an unplanned hospital readmission within 30 days of a previous discharge compared with those without the disorder ...

President Donald J. Trump’s administration is making it much harder to fight the overdose crisis thanks to a newly signed bill called the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (HALT Fentanyl) Act.

This de-addiction centre at GMSH was first opened around 10 years ago but had to be shut during the Covid-19 pandemic when ...