The mortality rate rose 1% in 2023 over the previous year. That’s about 2,500 deaths of unhoused people in Los Angeles County in 2023, 45% of which were caused by drug overdoses.

The number of Hoosiers dying from drug poisoning is going down.  Preliminary numbers in Marion County show that 2024 saw a huge decline in fentanyl-related overdose deaths.

A mother was arrested in Spokane Valley after her one-year-old child reportedly overdosed on fentanyl. According to the ...

A Chickasaw man has been arrested in connection with his stepsister’s overdose death, according to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. An MCSO news release ...

Barbosa, 28, of Hasbrouck Heights, were both charged with first-degree strict liability for drug-induced death and other ...

Spokane County Sheriff's say that the boy had access to the drug paraphernalia that was used by his mother, Samantha J.

PHOENIX — A woman has been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison after her 18-month-old child fatally overdosed on fentanyl last year. Natalie Tate, 38, was recently sentenced in court after pleading ...

An Orleans Parish judge has ruled that Coroner Dwight McKenna’s office is liable for “reckless and outrageous misconduct” ...

A one-year-old boy is expected to survive a fentanyl overdose in Spokane Valley Wednesday, and the mother has been arrested.

Opioid overdoses in Illinois have decreased by 9.7% in 2023, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, while ...

According to the latest figures, deaths involving synthetic opioids, like fentanyl analogs, also decreased by 9.5% in 2023, ...