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Overdose deaths in Houston and U.S. fall as experts praise new approach to opioid crisis
Drug overdose deaths have declined in Harris County as well as across the state and country in recent years, as experts tout ...
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Oregon overdose deaths have gone down, but they’re still high
Overdose deaths in Oregon went down 22% in 2024, the Oregon Health Authority announced on Friday. The decrease follows a ...
Drug overdose deaths plummet to pre-pandemic levels during fentanyl crisis
Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...
Clayton Welte died of a drug overdose inside a state prison. His death is not an outlier.
Wisconsin's Department of Corrections has introduced stricter measures and carried out investigations, but drugs are still rampant across the state's prisons.
Overdose deaths decline, a cross-species kidney transplant, poems help conservation efforts: Catch up on the day’s stories
Unprecedented drop: US drug overdose deaths in 2024 hit the lowest they’ve been in five years, according to a new estimate ...
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Nevada among few states seeing rise in overdose deaths
Nevada saw a small increase in drug overdose deaths in 2024, bucking the national trend that showed the largest one-year ...
Wisconsin has seen progress in reducing overdose deaths. Trump's cuts could upend that.
Rhetoric from the White House risks growing misconceptions of what harm reduction is and, significantly, what it is not.
US drug deaths plunged in 2024. Trump cuts may reverse that, experts warn.
US drug deaths plunged in 2024, according to federal data published Wednesday, offering hope that public health measures are ...