Gabrielle Bogut testifies in support of a bill to establish overdose prevention centers in Connecticut. Credit: Katy Golvala / CT Mirror Dozens of advocates gathered at the state Capitol on Wednesday ...

A recently published study from Karolinska Institutet shows that mortality among people who inject drugs enrolled in the Stockholm needle and syringe program declined over a 10-year period, with a ...

Accidental drug overdose has emerged as the leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in the United States, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Columbia University found that ...

During the 6-year period, 7901 deaths occurred. The leading cause of maternal death was unintentional drug overdose (1152 deaths; 5.2 deaths per 100,000 live births). Violence (defined as homicide or ...

Veterans may get more access to a medication for reversing opioid overdoses if a new bill becomes law. Currently, veterans can get naloxone for free with a prescription from medical providers at the ...

When people overdose on opioids, whether they wake up on their own or are revived by Narcan, many doctors assume they are fully recovered. This is a mistake because hypoxia (insufficient oxygen to the ...

Overdose deaths in Maryland have reached a 10-year low after decreasing by 26% in 2025, according to the governor's office. Maryland's Overdose Data Dashboard shows there were 1,315 overdose deaths in ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. It was cast as a lifesaving medication, a “best-in-class” overdose antidote built specifically for the fentanyl era. It was far more powerful ...

Parts of an opioid overdose reversal kit including Naloxone. The state distributed 45,000 naloxone kits in 2024, with fentanyl test strips, in an effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths. The United ...

Alaska had fewer overdose deaths in 2024 than in the year prior, and state health officials are working on ways to continue to reduce that total in the future. In all, 339 people died from drug ...

San Francisco is finally seeing a sustained reprieve from the height of the accidental drug overdose deaths, but new data indicates the racial and geographic disparities remain staggering. The City ...