The Biden administration is releasing a comprehensive Overdose Prevention Strategy focusing on primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment and recovery support to combat what ...

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 ...

OnPoint, the nation's first supervised drug consumption site, vows to continue its approach to harm reduction.

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 ...

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.

Marin County is set to receive $800,000 annually for nine years from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies, officials said this week. The county, which has an average of one resident dying from ...

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 ...

Massachusetts is funding an overdose prevention hotline, the first such investment by a state according to public health leaders. The hotline, which has been privately funded until now, allows people ...

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 ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, cities struggling with the AIDS crisis began considering a then-radical idea: give drug users sterile needles and syringes so they wouldn’t spread HIV, the virus ...

BRAINERD — The Minnesota Department of Health awarded more than 55 overdose prevention grants and contracts to community-based organizations, health systems, tribal nations, counties and other ...

Philadelphia is on track to record the lowest number of fatal overdoses in nearly a decade in 2025, according to preliminary state data. State officials reported 747 overdose deaths in the city as of ...