An overdose prevention nonprofit is warning visitors to Orlando this weekend to remain vigilant about their use of party drugs, especially at the three-day Electrical Daisy Carnival, following…
Read more Project Overdose warns of highly potent opioid in local drug supply ahead of EDC OrlandoBOSTON — MBTA officials are pouring cold water on a legislative push to make the opioid overdose reversing drug naloxone available at subway stations, citing a lack of…
Read more MBTA balks at expanding overdose prevention kiosksIn this file photo from 2017, Arlington police display crystal methamphetamine they confiscated during an arrest. Deaths from stimulant overdoses in Texas increased fourfold from 2013 to 2023.…
Read more Meth and other stimulant overdoses skyrocket in Texas. What’s fueling the trend?The number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in 2023 decreased for the first time in five years. Minnesota health officials say 54 people have died from suspected drug…
Read more Minneapolis author aiming to help people battling drug addiction with new bookOverdose deaths in Virginia fell 43% in one year. The head of addiction services at Inova Health System says while that’s encouraging, more needs to be done. The…
Read more ‘Stigma is not just an idea by itself’: Virginia doctor aims to sustain drop in overdose deaths during National Recovery Month – WTOP NewsThis story previously aired July 30, 2016. It was updated on Aug. 30, 2025. When he’s not out looking for the big wave, there’s a big story that…
Read more Was a California Google exec’s mysterious death an accident or murder?BOSTON — While the scourge of opioid addiction continues to affect Massachusetts, the number of people getting legal prescriptions for heavily addictive medicines is falling, according to the…
Read more Data: Fewer opioids prescribed in Mass., NHBOSTON — While the scourge of opioid addiction continues to affect Massachusetts, the number of people getting legal prescriptions for heavily addictive medicines is falling, according to the…
Read more Data: Fewer opioids prescribed in MassachusettsST. PAUL, Minn. — The tight-knit, community-centered feel of St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood is what brought Angie and Ted Vig’s guitar shop, Vig Guitars, to their current location along…
Read more Hamline-Midway business owners looking at moving due to drug issuesIf you spend much time in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, you will notice, amid the clamor of buses and trucks and car horns and vendors hawking…
Read more At LAFD Station 11, one of the busiest in the nation, far more overdose emergencies than structure firesStudents in Loudoun County will now be able to carry naloxone in their backpacks, as part of an update to the school district’s student medication policy. Students in…
Read more Loudoun Co. approves plan to allow students to carry Narcan at school – WTOP NewsThe death of a baby killed in a Northwest D.C. overdose incident in May will be investigated as a homicide, police said. The death of a baby killed…
Read more DC police investigate 2-month-old’s drug overdose death as homicide – WTOP NewsBOSTON — The scourge of opioid addiction continues to affect Massachusetts, but new data shows a double-digit decrease in the number of overdose deaths in the past year.…
Read more Opioid deaths drop 10%, but remain highWorkers who are injured on the job are at higher risk for fatal opioid-related overdoses, according to a new study, which calls for renewed efforts to reduce the…
Read more Report: Injured workers at risk for opioid overdosesWorkers who are injured on the job are at higher risk for fatal opioid-related overdoses, according to a new study, which calls for renewed efforts to reduce the…
Read more Report: Injured workers at risk for opioid overdosesCARY, N.C. (WTVD) — On Tuesday, Wake County school officials took another step toward putting potentially life-saving medicine into public schools — countywide. Wake County School Board members…
Read more Wake County school board approves Naloxone policyFentanyl crisis: What makes the drug so deadly Fentanyl crisis: What makes the drug so deadly 03:08 MORGAN HILL – A disgraced pharmacy technician who lost his state…
Read more Ex-pharmacy tech charged with murder in South Bay fentanyl overdoseOregon governor declares emergency over fentanyl crisis – CBS News Watch CBS News Oregon paved the way as the first state to decriminalize drug use in 2020, to…
Read more Oregon governor declares emergency over fentanyl crisisA Colorado overdose death has been linked to a new formulation of nitazenes, a class of powerful opioid analgesics being increasingly seen in the illicit drug market. Nitazenes…
Read more What are nitazenes? What to know about the drug that can beThe year isn’t over, but San Francisco has already hit a grim milestone: 2023 is the deadliest on record for fatal drug overdoses. More than 750 people died…
Read more 2023 is already San Francisco's deadliest year for drug overdoses
