The criminal justice system has been the federal government's main avenue for tackling drug addiction since President Richard Nixon effectively launched the "War on Drugs" in 1971. But drug overdose ...

Fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, has become a key point of contention in US-China trade talks. The US accuses China of ...

Now, experts say, fentanyl, a cheap, synthetic opiate originally dreamed up to treat people with end-of-life cancer, is either trekked in across the U.S.’s southern border by American mules, where ...

A deadly batch of fentanyl-laced crack cocaine has claimed the lives of three men and left a woman fighting for her life in ...

Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution ...

The series of deadly drug overdoses prompted a massive response from police to identify the source of the drugs.

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the naloxone distribution program would gut programs that train and equip communities to respond to overdoses.

Drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts tied to opioids are at their lowest level in more than a decade, according the ...

A “bad batch” of drugs was suspected in the overdoses of 27 people in Baltimore. What are bad batches and where do they come ...

Recent data from the American Medical Response revealed the number of suspected opioid overdoses in New Hampshire's two ...

Two Loveland residents, a dealer and an upstream distributor, are facing charges for their involvement in a fentanyl overdose ...