Two in three people in jail suffer from opioid use disorder, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But the organization says less than half of U.S. jails provide medication to treat it.

The massive national effort to return the Medicaid enrollment process to its pre-pandemic rules starting in April 2023 may ...

Individuals with KUD experience a variety of symptoms that go underreported and don’t tend to seek treatment when they want ...

Public health experts are worried by the proposed cuts to naloxone programs. One called the overdose antidote a “silver ...

A $56 million federal grant awarded annually for distributing and training people to use the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan is excluded from a draft budget released this month, according ...

Tulsa Police arrest a woman charged with child neglect in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who died from a cocaine and fentanyl overdose. Investigators say Brown has had six children since 2011 ...

Kentucky is reporting a 30.2% drop in drug overdose deaths in 2024. The new report is giving state leaders a surge of ...

Cocaine currently is the leading drug causing toxicity (overdose) deaths in Newfoundland and Labrador. While fentanyl is a highly toxic and dangerous substance, the Office of the Chief Medical ...

On Thursday, a coroner found all four died after inhaling what they thought was cocaine. In fact ... as a measure to reduce unintentional overdose. Nitazene test strips, he said, were an emerging ...

RCMP say a “cavalier” attitude toward cocaine use, combined with a stunning spike in purity, has made it the number one cause of overdose deaths in Newfoundland and Labrador. The numbers are troubling ...

A derelict building site that is being used by drug users to inject cocaine and heroin has prompted ... away and secluded and if someone takes an overdose here it's harder to reach them.

Dr. Nash Denic joined the RCMP in a press conference Wednesday. Cocaine is now the leading drug responsible for overdose deaths in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the RCMP. It comes a day ...