When people overdose on opioids, whether they wake up on their own or are revived by Narcan, many doctors assume they are fully recovered. This is a mistake because hypoxia (insufficient oxygen to the ...

People who leave jail and prison are at extremely high risk of a drug overdose, research shows. In this study of people with probable opioid use disorder in Massachusetts county jails, those who ...

By Kaavya Ravi Shankar In Alameda County, opioid overdose statistics can seem like just numbers on a page. However, behind ...

A new implant could help prevent overdose deaths by automatically administering the OD-reversing drug naloxone, a new study shows. The implant, about the size of a stick of gum, is placed under the ...

Finally, mercifully, the country’s astronomical drug overdose rate appears to be flattening out — even declining. This spring, national data began to show that overdose death rates were, after more ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For the first time in decades, a historic and “earth-shattering” shift in drug-related fatalities is occurring in Cuyahoga County: cocaine is now responsible for more deaths than ...

But testing sewage might have raised the alarm much sooner. When an overdose is suspected as the cause of death, a medical ...