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In what is likely to be his last address to the community for 2020, Sheriff Don Barnes of Orange County, California, emphasized the rise in crime this past year. There ...

Deaths from drug overdoses are accelerating during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—On the last day of August, beneath a cloudless azure sky, countless photos of young people ...

A retired Florida firefighter is changing lives. Through active fundraising, he is distributing a free nasal spray that ...

Losing a child is a parent's worst nightmare. Steve M. Grant of Greenville, South Carolina, is 61 and ...

The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of ...

Overdose deaths in 2017 from the drugs fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin rank highest in the Eastern United States, ...

At least 10 people died due to drug overdoses in a span of 26 hours over the weekend ...

Three people have died and four others were hospitalized in Pittsburgh after what police have said is a rash of ...

Ed Buck, a donor to Democrats, was arrested late Sept. 17 after a third man overdosed at his ...

A medical examiner in Texas said Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs' cause of death was an accidental ...

The recent slight drop in drug overdose deaths in the United States and parts of Canada could be ...

VANCOUVER—The British Columbia SPCA is warning dog owners about the dangers of recreational marijuana to their pets now ...

The number of people who died from drug overdoses in the United States dropped in 2018, marking the ...

VICTORIA—Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they ...

A couple died from an accidental overdose in a motel in Michigan while their 6-month-old daughter remained unattended and ...

Firefighters are not used to receiving a 911 call about one of their members—but on May 19 Jaffrey ...

The evening before their mother found them unresponsive, Nick, 19, and Jack, 18, had attended local high school ...

An Ohio father made a Facebook post about losing his daughter to a heroin overdose, opening people’s eyes ...

A 1-year-old baby girl went into convulsions after swallowing 15-20 sleeping pills and is currently on life-support at ...

Several years ago, a photo of an overdosing mother that went viral became a graphic symbol of America’s ...

Commentary See through the smoke screen. In September 2018, Daniel Lopez, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and ...

A 16-month-old boy was hospitalized and treated with Narcan after ingesting drugs left behind by his mother, according ...

BOSTON—Drug company executives weren't satisfied with sales for their powerful painkiller, so they devised a plan, prosecutors say: ...

Police said a mass overdose at a residence in Chico, California, has caused one death and 12 people ...

Too often people die of an opioid overdose because no one’s around to notice they’re in trouble. Now ...