More than 95,000 people died of overdose in the United States between January 2020 and January 2021, according to recently…
The federal government has allocated more than $80 million to combat the opioid-involved overdose crisis and support public health in…
On August 10, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation (in two weeks, that is). Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul…
Once as a paramedic student, I accidentally sprayed fentanyl in my face. It was my first time administering the medication,…
In 2020 there were at least 2,104 opioid-involved overdose deaths in Massachusetts, the highest ever recorded and nearly four times…
At least 1,921 Missourians died of opioid-involved overdose in 2020, an increase of almost 20 percent from the year before.…
On August 2, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that city police will no longer be able to arrest people who…
Over two years ago, in June 2019, the city of Oakland, California became the first in the US to decriminalize…
Life expectancy in the United States plunged by a year and a half in 2020, the worst year-on-year change since…
In 1986, HIV/AIDS was burning through New York. The city’s gay population was devastated, and, though it was talked about…