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The Delaware Division of Public Health’s (DPH) Office of Health Crisis Response (OHCR) announced this week that it will begin including fentanyl test strips in Narcan kits it distributes to

The Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance program recently released a Hazard Alert that focuses on fatal drug overdoses in the workplace.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, a program of The Center for Health Affairs, is taking its educational content to a new,...

During Coachella Weekend 1, the Indio Police Department made 85 drug/alcohol/intoxication-related arrests and three for possession of drugs for sale.

University of Kentucky experts on the front lines of the nation’s opioid and addiction crises will share their work in the field of opioid use disorder resear

The pandemic didn’t make recovery any easier. Opioid overdose deaths among Nevada residents increased 76% from 2019 to 2020, while emergency-room visits increased 15% for drug overdoses and 41% for opioid overdoses in 2020.

A UConn School of Dental Medicine team is focused on effective pain-management protocols, education, and outreach From left, UConn School of Dental

CADILLAC — The Wexford County Jail is one of only a handful in the state that is teaming up on a new approach to distribute naloxone, the life-saving medication used

Interview: Kara Sepulveda, Public Health Assistant for Quinnipiack Public Health District. She discusses the stigma surrounding the opioid epidemic and how the availability of naloxone and fentanyl test strips can work to mitigate the number of overdose deaths due to contaminants like fentanyl.

Interview: Kara Sepulveda, Public Health Assistant for Quinnipiack Public Health District. She discusses the stigma surrounding the opioid epidemic and how the availability of naloxone and fentanyl test strips can work to mitigate the number of overdose deaths due to contaminants like fentanyl.