WATERLOO — A Waterloo woman has pleaded to drug charges in connection with a 2023 overdose death. Bridgette Marie Washington, 46, pleaded to one count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death ...

The use of the herbal supplement kratom is growing, and so are reports of serious side effects. Here's what you must know ...

Kratom is marketed as an herbal alcohol alternative, but the reality is more dangerous. Real women share their experiences with the addictive substance.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — St. Joseph County health officials are taking more steps to prevent opioid overdose deaths. There is an event scheduled for Thursday at the OneRoof Southeast ...

What if, during the mass overdose event in Penn North this summer, word had circulated of a bad batch out there, so other buyers might beware? What if on any given day, rather than injecting alone, ...

There is a time for everything. Now is the time for the Department of Veterans Affairs to go opioid-free. When I first began practicing medicine at the VA, it was common to “prescribe” alcoholic ...

People who leave jail and prison are at extremely high risk of a drug overdose, research shows. In this study of people with probable opioid use disorder in Massachusetts county jails, those who ...

Nitazenes, a powerful and largely hidden class of synthetic opioids, are quickly becoming a deadly factor in the overdose crisis. Over 20 times stronger than fentanyl, these drugs often go undetected ...

The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid epidemic; overdose deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have increased more than 100-fold since 1999. Medications like buprenorphine, methadone and ...

In 2024, more than 3,000 North Carolinians are estimated to have died from opioid overdose. Since 2000, more than 41,500 people have died from overdoses. Even as the overdose death rate slowed ...

Nitazenes—a class of highly potent synthetic opioids—are rapidly emerging as a major contributor to the overdose crisis, according to a Pain Medicine review published today by authors from Vanderbilt ...

A large-scale study backed by the National Institutes of Health found that access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) while in jail is strongly associated with better post-release outcomes ...