The county commissioners approved the latest round of grants to local middle and high schools. Here's where the money is ...

A new study suggests that medications that have transformed the treatment of obesity may also help people drink less alcohol.

Over a decade spent treating and researching substance use disorders taught one researcher that the overdose epidemic is a ...

A number of counties are using opioid settlement money for child welfare purposes, but spending by Cameron County was ...

The Georgia Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust has begun to use much of the state’s portion of the money to attempt to build on ...

China and the Mexican cartels are not trying to create drug addicts — they [are] trying and succeeding at killing off our ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota and Boston University analyzed death records from 1999 to 2023. They found that ...

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute Testimony in Support of VA SB 924: “Drug and controlled paraphernalia; creates exception for drug checking products.” February 10, 2025 ...

A majority of respondents believed the federal government can address most of their top public health concerns more ...

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

New data from the Florida Department of Health and FDLE shows seniors in the Tampa Bay region are dying at higher rates from ...

A few years ago, the use and sale of methamphetamine was a major problem in Minnesota, including Scott County. It was relatively cheap and people could make it themselves with ingredients from the ...