The continued risk posed by the local illegal drug supply motivated the Windsor Police Service to put out a community alert in late July in response to three suspected opioid overdoses in a 24-hour ...

Clinicians should be on alert for signs of medetomidine exposure and withdrawal in suspected overdose cases, public health experts said Thursday during a CDC webinar. Hosted by the agency's Division ...

Fentanyl overdose deaths have recently dropped. From April 2024 to March 2025, the CDC reported 43,000 synthetic opioid deaths, most of which are from fentanyl, down from nearly 70,000 in the previous ...

Researchers have identified bradycardia-an abnormally low heart rate–as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help ...

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

Drug OD deaths are down in the U.S. The decline is being driven by a reduction in opioid ODs The OD death rate increased in just six states between 2022 and 2023 FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) ...

Deaths in Georgia from opioid overdoses fell by nearly a third from 2023 to 2024, a sign showing the state is making headway on the decades-long opioid crisis. But that progress, reflected in ...

Beginning in 2023, there was less fentanyl in the U.S. drug supply. The opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone’s availability is increasing and so is access to addiction treatment. Experts say the ...