Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health has issued an overdose alert for the Regina area, with dozens of overdoses reported by police in the last eight days. According to the alert, the Regina Police ...

Veterans may get more access to a medication for reversing opioid overdoses if a new bill becomes law. Currently, veterans can get naloxone for free with a prescription from medical providers at the ...

Beginning in 2023, there was less fentanyl in the U.S. drug supply. The opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone’s availability is increasing and so is access to addiction treatment. Experts say the ...

Parts of an opioid overdose reversal kit including Naloxone. The state distributed 45,000 naloxone kits in 2024, with fentanyl test strips, in an effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths. The United ...

PHOENIX — Drug overdose deaths are down across most of the country, but Arizona is one of the few exceptions. In fact, Arizona led the nation with a nearly 16% increase in the number of reported fatal ...

A nationwide drop in overdose deaths may be driven by a collapse of the international fentanyl supply chain in 2023, a Maryland criminologist in world drug markets reported in the journal Science. “We ...

The latest estimates on overdose deaths released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that as of August 2025, deaths fell approximately 21% from the same period in 2024.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the ...

Six puppies were saved from a suspected fentanyl overdose in Gold Bar on Sunday by Sky Valley Fire (SVF) crews. Early Sunday morning, individuals brought three unresponsive 10-week-old puppies in ...

For many years, the United States has waged a bitter battle against fentanyl. The president went as far as to sign an executive order calling the highly addictive and extremely potent synthetic opiate ...

A JAR OF peanut butter is not what it used to be. Look at the bottom and, for some jars, the “dimple” has grown deeper over time—the amount of peanut butter has reduced, while appearing the same size.

(The Center Square) – After a record-high in 2024, Spokane County Medical Examiner Dr. Veena Singh told The Center Square she expects the total number of overdose deaths to fall in 2025, but not by ...