considering he is homeless — he treats himself to a speedball or a goofball, mixing fentanyl with methamphetamine. Drug crisis: Charts track San Francisco’s overdose deaths “I’ve known ...

“speedball” deaths are still happening. Officials say last year, the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office reported about 400 people dying from unintentional drug overdoses with both fentanyl and ...

The number killed shot up to 56 in 2001, twice that of Ecstasy-related overdose deaths in 2000 and almost five times the toll of 1998. Soaring use of the drug is being fuelled by street prices ...

The death of a Milwaukee high school football coach has drawn attention to national drug shortages, as his family speaks out about their inability to access life-saving treatment. Jeff Bolle, 60, died ...

Over the past week in Sussex County, there have been 73 suspected drug overdoses, two people are dead and the National Guard ...

This brief uses data on overdose deaths from the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) data platform. Data are shown for the 35 member cities in the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Figure 1: Drug ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — While the overall rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States was stable from 2021 to 2022, drug overdose deaths increased among middle-aged and older adults during that ...

A new report by B.C. Coroners Service show the number of deaths due to toxic, illicit drugs throughout the province remains significantly high, with at least 177 people losing their lives to the ...

Each year, drug overdoses tragically take the lives of thousands of Americans. And since 2002, the rate of deaths from a drug overdose has quadrupled, largely fueled by the highly lethal fentanyl, new ...

Provisional data posted on Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that drug overdose deaths overall reached a new record high. During a 12-month period from ...

Tina Kotek signed legislation Monday to recriminalize the possession of small amounts of certain drugs as the state grapples ... homicides and overdose deaths. In 2020, unintentional opioid ...