Editor's Note: After this story was published, NPR reported that the CDC would be able to fully fund the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program ahead of a budget deadline, citing a CDC leader and ...

Drug overdoses are preventable, yet more than one million people died from a drug overdose between 1999 and 2021. Every day, almost 300 people lose their lives due to drug overdose. Public health ...

Newly released provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that fatal drug overdoses fell in 2025, marking three consecutive years of declines. By December 2025, ...

Drug overdose deaths continue to rise, breaking yet another record in 2022, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported that 107,941 Americans ...

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to ...

The number of Americans dying from drug overdoses fell last year for the first time since 2018, according to provisional federal estimates released Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

In July of 2021, New Haven lost a harm reduction giant and a massively important member of the community, Jason Crowell. I don’t speak for all of Jason’s loved ones but I firmly believe that Jason ...

A state panel Thursday recommended issuing more than $44 million in grants for scores of addiction prevention and treatment efforts aimed at the deadly opioid overdose epidemic in Georgia. Dozens of ...