FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — As more potent, lethal drugs like fentanyl circulate in the streets, mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation centers across the country and the state are working ...

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A series of “conscious failures” by Georgetown County Detention Center staff resulted is to blame for the lethal March drug overdose of a 23-year-old inmate, her ...

Clatsop County commissioners met virtually Wednesday to discuss the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new draft flood-risk maps and the county’s rising number of drug overdose deaths. Maps ...

South Dakota’s outsized prison death count extends beyond overdoses, and more than half the deaths have been preventable.

A recent study has uncovered alarming insights into the dangers posed by fentanyl-contaminated drug supplies in Australia, including a heightened risk of lethal overdose. The study, titled ‘The gear ...

These fake pills are more lethal than ever. DEA laboratory testing reveals that today, four out of 10 fentanyl-laced fake pills contain a potentially lethal dose. Lethal doses of heroin, carfentanil, ...

A new report published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine sheds light on nonfatal prescription drug overdoses in Medicare beneficiaries. Of about 137,000 people using Medicare, 17.4% had nonfatal ...

Carfentanil, a powerful opioid, has re-emerged in Michigan, causing 11 overdoses so far this year. Credit: Shutterstock The powerful opioid carfentanil has resurfaced in Michigan’s unregulated drug ...

Drug enforcement officers suspect a supercharged form of heroin is to blame for 50 overdoses in Indiana and Ohio since Tuesday and more than 75 total since Friday, reports USA Today. In Ohio, the ...

Researchers from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Centers for Medicare & ...

BILL, BILL. THANK YOU’D. AGENTS AND LOCAL POLICE ARE MAKING A DENT IN OVERDOSE DEATHS ACROSS THE METRO. THEY SAY THE CREATION OF AN OVERDOSE RESPONSE TASK FORCE HAS LED TO A HUGE DROP IN DEATHS. BUT ...

Police in Bengaluru on Wednesday arrested Dr Mahendra Reddy, a general physician at Victoria Hospital, for allegedly murdering his wife, Dr Kritika Reddy, a dermatologist, by administering a lethal ...