we continue to see an increase in fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses in the state since 2022,” the board wrote in its ...

By 2009, overdose deaths had tripled to 30,000. The opioid crisis began escalating, and overdose deaths zoomed to 70,000+ a ...

The weight-loss drug Ozempic can help reduce stroke patients' risk of a heart attack or death, a new study says.

Yes, it’s technically possible to overdose on Ozempic—but it’s unlikely, says Alexandra Sowa, MD, an internal medicine doctor ...

But Chief Carl Bowker of Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Services said the situation is a reminder of the ongoing lack of addictions-care services and the human cost of the opioid crisis locally.

Colorado’s community naloxone distribution program faces a financial shortfall as state funding dwindles, raising concerns ...

Baltimore City's opioid trial against the two drug distributors who didn’t settle has become, in many ways, a contest of expert witnesses.

An Oregon Health & Science University report found the Medicaid program has not done enough to prevent overdoses.

Dita Bhargava’s son Alec was a warm, loving, funny, handsome and athletic young man with mental health issues, including mild bipolar disorder, who self-medicated as a teen, going from marijuana to ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have smashed two major cross-border drug ... NDLEA operatives ...

Two major cross-border drug trafficking syndicates have been smashed and six drug kingpins arrested by operatives of the ...

The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 31,750,000 pills of 240mg Voltron at the Apapa seaport in Lagos.