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

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...

This indicates that drug dealers were finding it harder to source fentanyl and were turning to shrinkflation. “Lots of things ...

In recent years, drug abuse has fueled a surge in overdose deaths and created an emergent public health crisis in the United ...

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

In a move to enhance community health and safety, the Grant County Health District has implemented a policy requiring ...

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

For the first time since 2014, Cook County recorded fewer than 600 homicides in a year. The medical examiner handled 541 ...

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

Ozempic may lower the risk of opioid overdose in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests, the latest research to find a positive connection between the diabetes drug and another unrelated ...

Legislation passed at the state Capitol is now turning critical dollars into lifesaving action inside Georgia schools. By the ...

The county's Medical Examiner is calling to pivot addiction prevention and treatment efforts to address rising cocaine ...