News Center 7’s Amber Jenkins looked deeper into the stats for overdoses and learned what’s driving the numbers down.

A new study suggests the decline in fatal opioid overdoses reported in Nova Scotia early in the COVID-19 pandemic gave way to ...

Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is one of the most important drugs in the United States' fight against the opioid crisis. It reverses an opioid overdose nearly instantly, restarting ...

It has destroyed lives, friendships, and families, but only a few years after fentanyl made Dayton America’s overdose capital ...

Knowing that naloxone works by stalling the µ-opioid receptor in an early, latent state suggests that molecules that can bind more tightly or more selectively to this form of the receptor could be ...

Xylazine, which was never approved for human use, has wreaked havoc in Kensington. Amputations among opioid users have more ...

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is investigating six retailers for allegedly selling harmful kratom substances, possibly enhanced to make the opioid-like effects stronger. The retailers ...

Multiple Medicare administrative contractors have proposed local carrier determinations that would restrict coverage for many ...

The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which ...

Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died of an opioid overdose in 2019. His family and the team are in the second month of a ...

Quick-thinking Response officers in Scarborough used Naloxone nasal spray to help save the life of a substance-user who had collapsed from a suspected opioid overdose.

Our bodies are always talking to us. When we are hungry, our stomachs growl. When we’re cold, we shiver. When we feel pain, ...