When drug overdoses and drug deaths spiked in the Erie region in recent years, an Erie police unit that handled narcotic ...

Police and federal agents swarmed downtown Los Angeles’s notorious MacArthur Park Thursday afternoon to bust addicts who ...

The Starting Point, Inc. of New Jersey is celebrating 49 years of helping others, with addiction and mental health services ...

A dangerous substance known as medetomidine is crowding emergency rooms in some states. Medetomidine is appearing in North ...

Despite the rising body count off the South American coast, researchers say cocaine is as easy to get in many parts of the ...

Janeese Lewis George pointed to the idea of safe injection sites for addressing the opioid crisis in the Metro DC DSA’s ...

Researchers say some structural changes in treating addiction are helping, including wider access to overdose-reversing ...

The final sentencing in the 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution following the drug death of Matthew Perry will be of the ...

1 hospitalized after shooting outside Carlisle Sports Emporium; suspect arrested A physical altercation led to one person being shot outside of the Carlisle Sports Emporium on Saturday night. Capital ...

Federal data shows a 14% decrease in drug overdose deaths in the U.S. for 2025, marking the third consecutive year of decline ...

Cities that allow and encourage substance abuse, such as Los Angeles, do see more people living and dying on the street.

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