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Advocacy groups say ‘Healthy Illinois 2028’ is missing key areas of focus.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A new state health report pinpoints racism as a public health crisis while also noting Illinois needs to improve in the areas of maternal and infant health,

A new state health report pinpoints racism as a public health crisis while also noting Illinois needs to improve in the areas of maternal and mental health.

For years, the primary approach to teaching kids about drugs was to "just say no." Now, a new Illinois law signed this summer is expanding that method.

How to get the drug for free—and possibly save a life

Organizers called for Illinois to allow safe-use sites, where people can use drugs under supervision of medical professionals and be guided toward recovery resources.

A bill to authorize the sites may not have the votes in the Illinois legislature as time runs out. But Plan B is to go directly to Chicago.

A proposed state law named after a Medinah man who died of a heroin overdose in 2012 and encouraged by his mother would provide an optional K-12 drug education curriculum for schools across Illinois.

Suburban advocates are hailing the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations decision Wednesday to allow over-the-counter sales of Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

“The war on drugs, where we told people to just say no, failed us,” says state Rep. LaShawn Ford. “We know that people are going to use, and we have to support them.”