Kids who lose a parent to homicide, suicide or drug overdose face higher mortality risk

Childhood deaths are significantly higher among children who lose a parent to drug overdose, homicide, or suicide compared to ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Adolescent Drug Overdose Fatalities May Have Decreased in 2023

Adolescent drug fatalities, especially involving fentanyl, increased slower in 2023, with a slight decline in overall fatalities. Fentanyl-related deaths in adolescents rose from 32% in 2018 to 76% in ...
USA Today

Drug overdoses spiked in these states. But they have dropped elsewhere in the country.

Fewer Americans died of drug overdoses nationwide last year, marking the first annual drop since 2018, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates released Wednesday. The CDC ...
New Scientist

Why drug overdose deaths have suddenly plummeted in the US

Fentanyl-related overdose deaths fell by nearly 30 per cent in the space of a year in the US, which could represent a ...
WXIX-TV

Coroner: 5-year-old dies from ‘intoxication’ of drugs, including xylazine

DAYTON, Ohio (WXIX) - After a months-long investigation, the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office revealed a 5-year-old boy’s cause of death on Friday, June 21. According to Montgomery County Coroner Dr ...
Medscape

Is the US Entering a ‘Fifth Wave’ of the Overdose Crisis?

From 2016-2025, the co-involvement of stimulants in fentanyl overdose deaths increased 164%, according to a new report by Millennium Health, a San Diego-based specialty lab that conducts urine drug ...
CBS News

Opioid deaths now lowest in 3 years, but still worse than pre-pandemic

Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of fatalities ...

Dogs can overdose too: Naloxone training can save pets as well as humans

Opioid-class drugs are commonly prescribed as powerful pain medications in both humans and animals, though they can also be accessed or used illicitly. These substances carry a significant risk of ...
WUNC

NC drug overdose deaths appear to be dropping. Why?

Narcan nasal spray. Narcan, or naloxone, reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. The latest data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts about a 30% decrease in ...
Hawaii News Now

Possible drug overdose in three Halawa inmates prompts emergency response

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) is investigating a possible drug overdose that sickened three male inmates Wednesday. EMS confirmed a ...
Newsweek

Map Shows States With the Most Fatal Drug Overdoses

West Virginia has the highest mortality rate from drug overdoses in the United States, with 77.8 deaths reported per 100,000 residents, while Nebraska has the lowest. This is according to an analysis ...