La Crosse County is on pace to match a record year for fatal drug overdoses, according to the county’s chief medical examiner. Tim Candahl said Tuesday that 20 people in the county are either ...

The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed that the city in February recorded its first fatal overdose victim with the synthetic drug medetomidine in their system. The victim ...

You can see the deadly westward expansion of fentanyl in new data from the CDC. Across the country, it was responsible for 39% of all fatal drug overdoses.

Over 93,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2020, an increase of nearly 30 percent from the previous year that set a record, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing new CDC data.

Drug overdose deaths continue to rise, breaking yet another record in 2022, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported that 107,941 ...

Drug-involved overdose deaths increased by over 500 percent in 2022 according to a study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with trends attributed to synthetic opioids.

San Francisco saw a record 699 fatal drug overdoses in 2020 a 63% increase over the previous year. Experts believe the coronavirus pandemic may be exacerbating the death toll.