Medetomidine is more potent than xylazine, another animal anesthetic that began appearing years ago in the opioid supply.

Federal prosecutors target 20 alleged fentanyl dealers linked to overdose deaths, with charges that could result in 20-year ...

Drug overdose deaths in Arkansas fell by more than 25% last year, the third straight annual decline, although the number ...

Unlike alcohol and many other psychoactive substances, marijuana is incapable of causing a lethal overdose. Nonetheless, ...

Medical investigators have determined that a county sheriff in northern New Mexico died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and alcohol.

On Nov. 30, 2024, deputies responded to the Days Inn at 1500 Yadkinville Road in Mocksville in reference to a medical ...

State data on fentanyl deaths among young children wasn’t available online. So, KARE 11 Investigates requested Minnesota ...

Data from the CDC shows overdose deaths dropped significantly both in Oklahoma and across the country last year. It says ...

A Utah organization whose focus is to increase access to the drug that helps prevent overdoses has started a new billboard ...

Rio Arriba County Sheriff Billy Merrifield died from an overdose of the synthetic opiate fentanyl and alcohol, according to ...

Lonnie Haskins pleaded guilty in April to dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death for the June 2023 death of ...

Oregon's number of deadly overdoses declined in 2024 — the first time that's happened in years. But in Clatsop County, ...