Ten years after Carroll County leaders launched a memorial to mourn lives lost to drug addiction, data show that overdose ...

On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder ...

Nick Tshonas died from an overdose on drugs which his friend Charles Lewis sold to him. In court on Friday, Charles was ...

According to DHHS, it’s unknown if the use of these two drugs together was intentional or unintentional, but the information ...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States in 2024 to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new CDC ...

Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.

HealthDay News — Drug overdose deaths decreased by 26.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to provisional data released May 14, 2025, from the National Center for Health Statistics.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

Fatal drug overdoses among youth aged 15 to 24 in the United States involving synthetic opioids alone—not mixed with other ...

That year-on-year drop is the steepest single-year decline since the government first began keeping track of overdose deaths 45 years ago. It means that drug deaths are now finally coming back ...

Preliminary data from the Kitsap Public Health District found opioid overdoses dropped in 2024, the first decline in six years.