Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story The synthetic opioid 10x stronger than fentanyl and popping up across states Multiple states ...

Fentanyl-related overdose deaths fell by nearly 30 per cent in the space of a year in the US, which could represent a ...

The number of drug overdose deaths in Minnesota remained the same from 2024 to 2025, indicating that improvements over the past two years are slowing down, according to preliminary numbers from the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio is emerging as one of the nation's strongest turnaround stories in the long-running opioid crisis, with newly verified federal data ...

From 2016-2025, the co-involvement of stimulants in fentanyl overdose deaths increased 164%, according to a new report by Millennium Health, a San Diego-based specialty lab that conducts urine drug ...

Overdose deaths in the U.S. fell to pre-pandemic levels, with roughly 68,000 deaths in the year ending October 2025.

On March 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a published a National Vital Statistics Report on the drugs most ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared war on kratom, an unregulated herbal medicine that comes from the leaves of the mitragyna plant in Southeast Asia.

In the present study, the CDC team investigated reports of suspected KSHV infection sent from transplant centers to the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network from January 2021 to September 2025. A ...

A former executive of ExThera Medical admitted to concealing the deaths of two cancer patients treated with the company's ...

By Shivani Ramanathan There are many ways a pill can transform into something that is poisonous to your health, from an “abortion pill” to illegal fentanyl. It can be difficult to differentiate real ...

Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an ...