Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records — making it the worst overdose epidemic in American history.
Riverside University Health System announced that its "One Life, One Heart" Poisoning and Overdose Awareness Walk will debut at three Riverside County locations, starting with Palm Desert on ...
Clarksburg Health Department is set to receive 75 thousand dollars from the Harrison County opioid settlement committee for ...
Overdose deaths reached a record high in 2022 but also rose less sharply than in previous years, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week. The CDC ...
Final data for 2022 was published Thursday by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It showed that a 1.1-year increase brought overall life expectancy at birth to 77.5 years. While ...
Drug overdose deaths in Bartholomew County so far this year have largely kept pace with last year, when fatal overdoses declined 36% to their lowest annual total since 2019. As of Wednesday ...
That was the news from Dr. Michael Faulk, chief medical officer for the county. He discussed Chautauqua County’s battle with overdose deaths at the March county Board of Health meeting. Faulk said a ...
Rickey Smiley Smiley, who also lost his father to a drug overdose when he was young, says grappling with death when it’s your own child is unlike anything else he’s experienced. “It’s your ...
A Sartell High School student is recovering after going unresponsive at school Thursday and being given the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, according to Sartell police. A school resource officer ...
Despite an overall decrease in drug use among teens compared to prior years, one startling trend accelerated – drug overdose deaths. According to the latest available data from the Centers for ...
MORE ON THAT PART OF THE FORECAST COMING UP SHORTLY. A MAN IS IN THE LEAVENWORTH COUNTY JAIL TONIGHT IN A TEENS OVERDOSE. THE KANSAS BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SAYS TORIN BAUMAN WAS ARRESTED TODAY.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - The 19-year-old charged in connection with the January 2023 fentanyl overdose death of a Lansing teen made his initial court appearance Friday afternoon. Torin Baughman ...