In late November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared a staggering statistic: Provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics indicated that for the first time in the ...

A map of which Mission District bars stock Narcan, generically known as the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone. Map designed by Will Jarrett. The Mission is one of the top neighborhoods where ...

(Editor's Note: This story is not about fentanyl addiction, which is a separate serious issue. This story is for people who would never intentionally take fentanyl, and their families and their kids' ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- From social media to the streets, there seems to be a huge demand for diabetic testing strips, which test glucose levels in the blood. For people living with diabetes, like ...

At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: "Your drugs ...

The life-threatening drug, medetomidine, has been found in 457 drug seizures in the third quarter of this year, a surge from ...

Fentanyl test strips have been shown to be highly effective and cost-efficient at fighting the crisis, but Texas is one of the few states that has not decriminalized them. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews ...

When Ian Eisenberg’s friend died due to an overdose of fentanyl last year, the problem of street drugs laced with this potent synthetic opioid became personal. “People taking drugs that they have no ...

Opioid use is climbing in the D.C. region, and officials in Arlington County, Virginia, are hoping to cut down on the number of overdoses caused by fentanyl that they’ve seen in the past year.

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Fentanyl test strips are among the cheapest and easiest ways to prevent overdoses, but multiple attempts to legalize them — even with Gov. Greg Abbott’s support in the past — ...