Drug overdoses now killing equivalent of…
Deadly fentanyl is killing the equivalent of an entire classroom of children every week, staggering figures…
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Are fentanyl test strips the answer to stopping…
One tool to make sure those using illicit drugs are not unknowingly consuming fentanyl is by providing fentanyl…
A day of school stabbings, crashes and suspected…
During one school day this week, Los Angeles Unified grappled with three emergencies: a double stabbing outside a…
In Jails and Prisons, the White House Sees a…
The Biden administration this week accelerated efforts to fund opioid addiction treatment in jails and prisons, a…
From Orgasms to Overdoses: How Marie Nyswander…
In the early 1950s Marie Nyswander was ready to move on from addiction. She set up a private practice and…
Santa Clara County fast-tracks Narcan to fight…
In an effort to fight back against an explosive increase in fentanyl deaths in Santa Clara County, officials are…
With overdoses up, states look at harsher…
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by…
Fentanyl overdoses reported at Santa Clara…
SAN JOSE – As the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office contends with a spike in fentanyl overdoses at the Elmwood…
L.A. riders bail on Metro trains amid…
Matthew Morales boarded the Metro Red Line at MacArthur Park as classical music blared over the station…
In Boston’s Nubian Square, cocaine users have…
People who thought they were using cocaine have recently suffered opioid-related overdoses in Nubian Square,…