Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called for immediate global action to address the escalating ...

The Arizona Department of Education is distributing opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan to schools across the state to ...

Opioid overdose deaths have decreased for 12 months, with 70,655 predicted deaths through June 2024, down from 86,401 in June ...

Student wellness representatives shared resources for dealing with health emergencies and promoted the University's amnesty ...

Experts are unsure as to what is causing the decline, which saw deaths decrease by some 14% between June 2023 and 2024.

The state has reached agreements with a dozen companies thus far to "resolve legal claims for their role in the opioid crisis ...

Overdose deaths increased in Nevada and four other states as national numbers declined, according to provisional data ...

With the increased legalization of recreational cannabis, as many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug ...

Overdose deaths declined for the second year in a row, fanning health experts’ hopes that the opioid crisis could be turning ...

More than 48 million Americans 12 years or older had a substance use disorder in 2022, yet only 24 percent received treatment ...

San Francisco's health department, at times criticized for not doing enough to encourage people to go into drug treatment ...

A state panel has made its recommendations for how the first round of funding from a major $638 million settlement with ...