Health Minister Sylvia Jones once promised that ‘people are not going to die,’ but the province hasn’t tried to figure out if ...

DEA reports a decrease in fentanyl contamination and overdose deaths, with a significant drop in potentially lethal pills.

Data from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s office shows a 19% decrease in accidental drug deaths from January to July of ...

Aroostook County, along with the other counties in Maine, are a part of a joint award of settlement funds to help combat the ...

In the midst of an opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, a decline in deaths was welcome news, ...

Giving prisoners access to naloxone would require almost no extra effort or expense—the infrastructure to do it already ...

380 caliber handgun, two .45 caliber handguns, ammunition, digital scales and three Narcan nasal sprays. At Green’s home, they found crack cocaine, crystal meth, fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, heroin ...

He sold the drugs on OfferUp in a listing for “black tar roofing materials” — coded language for black tar heroin — in Long ...

Parents managing addiction under doctor’s orders with methadone or similar medications are often set up for failure in foster ...

Most surgical procedures use a strategy called balanced anesthesia, which combines drugs that induce sleep and relax muscles ...

Suboxone, naltrexone and methadone — have made it possible to see progress in preventing overdoses among people reentering ...