The Connecticut Public Health Committee staged a hearing Friday on a bill that would create a pilot program for overdose ...

The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has conducted an orientation seminar on drug abuse prevention and education to provide senior ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has warned students about the dangers and prevalence of drug abuse, emphasising the urgent need for awareness and prevention. The Assistant ...

The vast majority of people who have a substance use disorder (SUD) never seek treatment. At most, 10% of adults with a drug or alcohol use disorder have entered any type of inpatient or outpatient ...

The Himachal Pradesh government under Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu has intensified its crackdown on synthetic drugs, ...

During that time, drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% nationwide, marking the first time overdose deaths declined since the ...

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this ...

Some experts point to the broader availability of naloxone and fentanyl test strips. Even so, Alaska, Oregon, and Washington saw an increase in overdose deaths in 2023. More news is on gene therapy ...

From 2022 to 2023, there was a decrease in the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose death in the United States, according to a report published in the February Health E-Stats, a publication of the ...

America’s opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev ...

We need to reduce the number of Connecticut families and friends who experience the loss of a loved one with substance-use ...