Synthetic opioid deaths fell sharply in 2023 and 2024 after a shock to the fentanyl supply. New evidence points to precursor ...

A sudden disruption in the illicit fentanyl supply, rather than advances in treatment or policing, may explain the sharp drop ...

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

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Castrucci is the president & CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation. To start, we do not yet know the cause of the decline. Some ...

Chicago and Cook County saw another steep decline in fatal opioid overdoses last year, records show, four years after a ...

Birmingham, Ala. (WIAT) –The latest data from the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office shows at least 290 fewer ...

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

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

Opioids were involved in one out of every 65 deaths in the U.S. in 2016. For younger adults, that number jumped to one in five deaths, a study published in JAMA Network Open found. Research was ...

Opioid-related deaths are trending down across Alberta, but emergency room visits and Emergency Medical Services responses to ...

A doctor at the Chambersburg Hospital was accused of fatally prescribing opioids to a 63-year-old woman with an opioid ...