The ongoing panic around fentanyl, a potent opioid that is driving the overdose crisis, is being stoked among law enforcement…
Marion County, Indiana is seeing a troubling rise in deaths related to methamphetamine combined with fentanyl, according to the Indiana…
On the edge of Shanghai, men wearing balaclavas meet journalist Ben Westhoff at sunset. He’s blindfolded, pushed into a pickup…
To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, I went out on the streets of Harlem and asked people for their thoughts…
US-based harm reduction group DanceSafe and Canadian creative agency The Garden have partnered to present the "Coke Challenge" ahead of…
Fatal overdoses may be slightly declining in the United States, according to preliminary 2018 data, but they are not falling…
For the first time in seven years, fatal overdoses are declining in New York City—a trend also provisionally observed on…
Public education campaigns about drugs often rely on ineffective and stigmatizing scare tactics. They spread fear and shame that make…
In 2017, overdoses in urban areas occurred more frequently than those in rural places, according to a new Center for…
For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according to preliminary Center for Disease Control…