opioid overdoses

While adult overdoses surged in the last decades, teens hadn't seen the same kind of death rates. But now fatal overdoses nearly doubled in one year and continued to rise in 2021.

The companies, including Johnson & Johnson and McKesson, will admit no wrongdoing. Billions of dollars in payouts will fund drug treatment and harm reduction programs.

The bill would allow naloxone to be administered by school staff trained to recognize an opioid overdose.

The agency hopes people struggling with addiction will go to its website and sign up for free recovery resources or to receive Narcan.

COVID survivors are at risk from a possible second pandemic, this time of opioid addiction, given the high rate of painkillers being prescribed to these patients, health experts say.

President Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday to put an "extremely big dent" in the scourge of drug addiction in America as he signed legislation intended…

Last year the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded to more than 3,700 overdose calls. About 2,400 of the calls happened between January and...

More money is needed to stop overdose deaths, Manatee County leaders told state officials during an opioid workshop Tuesday.Emergency responders need…

South Floridians poured into a community room at the West Palm Beach Police Department Monday for the first of four public workshops around the state on...

The man had just risen from the dead. He’s in his mid-20’s. Sitting on a couch in a house in Delray Beach. Pale as a ghost, sweaty, wide-eyed,...