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 ...

Last fall, when initial data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a surprising drop in drug overdose deaths, the universal response was relief. We were finally getting ...

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, ...