The percentage of people treated for a drug overdose who need more than one dose of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone is on the rise, a new study ...
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), some teens who use e-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products report smoking ciga...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded a policy that discouraged prosecutors from enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states that have d...
Recreational marijuana sales began on January 1 in California. California, the nation’s most populous state, is the sixth state to allow sales of recr...
New England states saw a decrease in opioid overdose deaths in 2017, The Wall Street Journal reports. State officials say efforts including widespread...
Deaths from unintentional drug and alcohol overdoses in the workplace rose more than 30 percent in 2016, a new report concludes. According to The Wall...
Drug overdoses are on the rise among black Americans, especially in urban counties where fentanyl has become pervasive. The New York Times reports the...
A new government report finds life expectancy in the United States decreased for the second consecutive year in 2016, in part due to an increase in fa...
People in rural America are dying from drug overdoses at a faster rate than Americans who live in other parts of the country, and opioid poisonings in...
According to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there was a 33% increase in the number of teens experiencing depression,...