At an addiction conference in Nashville, Tenn., in late April, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, ...

The U.S. marked its largest one-year decline in drug overdose deaths in 2024, according to Centers for Disease Control and ...

Overdoses and drug poisonings are the third leading cause of death in people under age 20, per the CDC, and synthetic opioids ...

Eliminating the injury center would be akin to pulling firefighters off the scene while the fire is still burning.

The CDC reports that fatal overdoses dropped 27% in 2024. Progress has been made, but proposed budget cuts may hamper future ...

Data: CDC; Note: 2024 data is provisional and may be underreported; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Boulder County mirrors the national trend, as drug overdose deaths last year fell to their lowest annual ...

A health secretary who systematically ignores mention of the major killer of adult Americans is clearly not interested in ...

The number of people who died last year in Massachusetts from drug overdoses plummeted to their lowest level in more than a ...

The CDC reports that fatal overdoses dropped 27% in 2024. Progress has been made, but proposed budget cuts may hamper future ...

Reason to celebrate, but not overestimate. That should be the takeaway from the state’s most recent fatal drug overdose ...

Data: CDC via San Antonio Metropolitan Health District; Chart: Axios Visuals Drug-related deaths in Bexar County have dropped from pandemic-era highs, but are still above 2019 levels, CDC data shows.

Hartford HealthCare has recently doubled its capacity for people that need medical detoxification from drugs and alcohol.