"Randy had absolutely everything to live for, but he shared one thing in common with my students: Once drugs were introduced ...

When the state stopped prosecuting the possession of small amounts of drugs, deaths climbed. Correlation or causation?

Only a few days before Mimi’s son, Shelby, overdosed on heroine laced with fentanyl, he was found motionless inside of a ...

It is an increasingly common scenario as fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of ... He said his son was struggling ...

Serving on the frontlines of the opioid crisis, I have learned that one group, one way, or one ideology only leads to one ending.

A Riverside man who sold a fentanyl-laced pill is liable for $5.8 million in the death of the 20-year-old woman to whom he ...

The most powerful answer to a public health crisis comes with raising awareness and taking action.

A woman’s mother and grandmother struggle to reclaim her, but it's as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can't ...

This month, a brief, ambitious and many would say calamitous experiment came to an end: Oregon rolled back Measure 110, its ...

The core premise of Measure 110 was that “a health-based approach to addiction and overdose is more effective, humane and cost-effective than criminal punishments.” That decriminalization not only ...

Substance use impacts many throughout a community, including the youngest individuals. The Oklahoma State Department of ...

Public art on a vending machine in Neenah is helping to break down the stigma around substance addiction and overdose.