Daniel Lurie, the city’s new mayor, is scaling back a program that gives away clean foil, pipes and plastic straws for ...

Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in the ...

For this week's Reporter's Notebook segment, NPR Addiction Correspondent Brian Mann explains the reasons behind the surprise drop in overdose deaths across the country.

A little-known federal agency that touches the lives of people across the United States by funding the 988 crisis line, ...

Thirty thousand fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned ...

Drug screening is the process by which potential drugs are identified and optimized before selection of a candidate drug to progress to clinical trials. It can involve screening large libraries of ...

The US government, despite opposition from all sides, has slapped tariffs indiscriminately on countries around the world. Citing China's alleged failure to take sufficient measures to address the ...

WASHINGTON -- Relying on cheap offshore labor has hurt innovation in the U.S. and let rival nations catch up, U.S. Vice President JD Vance argued Tuesday in a speech on President Donald Trump's ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun distributing free malaria drugs and test kits to strengthen the fight against the disease in the territory. The Mandate Secretary ...

Fentanyl, also spelled fentanil, is an opioid that is intended to be used as a pain reliever and anaesthetic, but which has become popular as a recreational drug, leading to mass addictions in the ...

She told CBC's The Current she left the job angry at the "lackadaisical" response to the toxic drugs crisis. Baidwain says he will let the data around overdose deaths speak for itself.

She told CBC's The Current she left the job angry at the "lackadaisical" response to the toxic drugs crisis. Baidwain says he will let the data around overdose deaths speak for itself. B.C.'s low ...