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There have been four suspected drug overdoses, including one fatal, within five days.

People in Kansas City, Missouri, can now get Narcan for free from the city’s health department. The medication reverses the effects of opioid overdoses.

CHARLESTON — The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) heard from local and state health officials Wednesday during its full council meeting in Charleston.

New research found cocaine or methamphetamine paired with fentanyl was responsible for one-third of overdose deaths

Raising awareness about overdoses

Santa Clara County Public Health says it just received over $11 million from the CDC for drug overdose prevention.

According to an NMDOH press release, 2023 is the 25th anniversary of the department's Hepatitis and Harm Reduction Program as well.

The Berkshire Harm Reduction Program at Berkshire Medical Center, in close collaboration with a number of state and local programs, agencies and organizations, is focused on meeting substance use disorder

As Oregon grapples with a fentanyl crisis, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden says more needs to be done to curb the flow of the synthetic opioids in the state and funding needs to be better spent.

Amid Oregon's fentanyl crisis, Multnomah County reported a 533% increase in synthetic opioid overdose deaths from 2018 to 2022.