U.S. drug deaths dropped by roughly 40% last year among people under the age of 35. It's a welcome pivot for families and communities devastated by fentanyl.

Long Island addiction-treatment providers said Monday that a congressional spending bill's $880 billion in proposed cuts, ...

Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the bipartisan PROTECT Act, which aims to combat drug trafficking within tribal communities ...

The state saw a 26% drop in overdose deaths in 2024 as compared to 2023, according to new data in a report from the ...

Fatal overdoses among US youth from synthetic opioids alone surged from 2018 to 2022, surpassing deaths from polydrug ...

As Measles cases continue to spread across the U.S., infecting over 1,160 and killing three, local health experts emphasize ...

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

A report out Monday from the state Department of Public Health says overdose deaths in Connecticut were down in 2024 for the ...

In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that ...