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A more timely indicator of overdoses — nonfatal suspected overdose patients in hospital emergency departments — was down 7% this year through August compared with 2024, according to a recent Stateline ...

Megan Harrigan hurried around the Union Street Brick Church in Bangor in September, gathering clients and bringing them to the back corner of the church where there was a makeshift clinic of folding t ...

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I covered Michael Ray Richardson during my sportswriter days, so when I learned he died of prostate cancer (which I'm ...

But the number of people who died of drug overdoses in North Carolina fell by 35% between April 2024 and April 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state saw among ...

But “cannabis is definitely something that someone can develop an addiction to,” said Das, an addiction psychiatrist at ...

Harm reduction programs like syringe exchanges and access to naloxone can combat rural opioid crisis, but moral biases, ...

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Nashville's public health director stocked Nashville vending machines with free naloxone, the opioid antidote, in hopes of saving lives.