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Sep 22, 2025 - Jails may seem secure, but people who run them have a very hard time keeping drugs out. Those drugs often lead to overdoses.

Feb 20, 2026 - More than 1,800 people died in British Columbia last year from illicit drug overdoses, and while the coroner’s service says it still represents a “profound...

Sep 12, 2025

Jun 5, 2025 - Under Trump and RFK Jr., gutting key government agencies could make overdoses soar again

Mar 21, 2025 - Reducing funding to the largest payer for addiction services could pose major setbacks for those battling drug use

Nov 5, 2025 - The overdose crisis is a public health emergency. DPA is advocating for a public health approach to drugs that can prevent overdose deaths and save lives.

Jan 14, 2026 - Overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years — the longest drop in decades — but that decline is slowing.

Jan 2, 2026 - For the first time since 2014, Cook County recorded fewer than 600 homicides in a year. The medical examiner handled 541 homicides in 2025.

Naloxone for everyone and supervised drug consumption rooms could be the future

Jan 16, 2023 - Despite rising numbers of opioid overdose deaths and years of internal emails from El Paso police officers asking for increased Narcan access, the department...

Dec 18, 2025 - OnPoint, the nation's first supervised drug consumption site, vows to continue its approach to harm reduction despite federal hostility.

Jan 9, 2026 - A "major disruption in the illicit fentanyl trade, possibly tied to Chinese government actions," may have caused a drop in overdose deaths.

Jan 5, 2026 - Podcaster Joe Rogan says drug overdose deaths in the United States have "dropped off a cliff" due to the Trump administration destroying drug...

A new Guardian analysis finds wide geographical disparities in fatalities linked to the public health crisis.

Jan 15, 2026 - But the monthly death toll is still not back to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone where it was before this overdose epidemic struck.

Jan 13, 2026 - Addressing fentanyl overdose deaths is a bipartisan priority in Congress and statehouses across the country. As a result, many policymakers are working to...

Dec 3, 2024 - Naloxone is a medication that can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. Northwestern Health Unit works with the Ontario Ministry of Health to prevent opioid...

Nov 7, 2025 - The effort relies on data, artificial intelligence and old-fashioned human connection.

MAP's Dan Werb and Hayley Thompson spoke with the Toronto Star about the recently observed decline in opioid overdose deaths in Toronto. The trend is...

Feb 20, 2026

The city has adopted a ‘multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem’ and has seen a 37% reduction in deaths since the national peak of the crisis

Apr 26, 2023 - Flint, MI—Against a beige brick wall on the east side of Flint’s downtown bus station is a single vending machine. It seems unremarkable, but on closer

Jul 26, 2024 - While deaths related to some common opioids decreased that year, meth-related deaths rose slightly, in part because of lingering effects of despair from the...

With an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a team led by Brown University researchers will conduct the first scientific analysis of a policing...

Nov 19, 2025 - For the first time in six years, Black and Brown opioid overdose deaths decreased citywide in 2024, according to health department data.

Nov 15, 2024 - Overdose deaths expected to decline 17% between June 2023 and June 2024