While New Jersey makes progress on fatalities, Black Lives Matter Paterson provides a bridge to emergency help after hours ...

Overdoses are not going down for everyone,” said Daniel Teixeira da Silva, director of the Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction at the city health department.

2023 was a year of heartbreak for thousands of people who lost loved ones to overdose. It was the deadliest year on record — in the United States, more than 110,000 people died from a drug overdose.

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

As the opioid overdose crisis continues to harm people across Connecticut, there is an urgent need to take bold action. One of the most promising solutions, supported by decades of evidence, is the ...

A New York-based group with a specific focus on drug abuse and overdose awareness in one of the most populous cities in California is facing pushback for one of its campaigns that encourages users to ...

The latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are simply staggering: there were more than 95,000 drug overdose deaths between February 2020 and February 2021, an ...

Family and friends will gather Monday to remember Josh Chouinard's life — and funeral-goers can take home a naloxone kit. The 17-year-old died one week ago from an apparent overdose, which was ...

Project Weber/RENEW on July 10, 2025. The center provides harm reduction and recovery services and sits next to the Rhode Island Hospital campus in Providence. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This ...

PROVIDENCE – Project Weber/RENEW and VICTA have secured a location to launch the country’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center, also known as a safe consumption site, at 45 Willard Ave., ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that overdose prevention center (OPC) services, aimed at reducing overdose deaths -- a public health issue that the country as a whole has been grappling with ...

A recent rise in drug overdoses in the Tri-County is prompting community organizations, healthcare providers and law ...