The U.S. marked its largest one-year decline in drug overdose deaths in 2024, according to Centers for Disease Control and ...

The CDC reports that fatal overdoses dropped 27% in 2024. Progress has been made, but proposed budget cuts may hamper future ...

A reporter told Sheinbaum on Tuesday that some CDC researchers have said that "many" of the anti-drug strategies used in the ...

Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—just as harm reduction was beginning to work ...

Reason to celebrate, but not overestimate. That should be the takeaway from the state’s most recent fatal drug overdose ...

The CDC reports that fatal overdoses dropped 27% in 2024. Progress has been made, but proposed budget cuts may hamper future ...

The number of people who died last year in Massachusetts from drug overdoses plummeted to their lowest level in more than a ...

Dasgupta spoke with 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell about recent data from the CDC and his lab’s efforts to address the ...

The Boston Public Health Commission released data last week that showed a 38% decrease in overdose deaths compared to 2023.

Boston recorded 169 overdose deaths last year. That grim tally represents a 38% decrease year-over-year and mirrors a similar ...

Parish officials attribute the decrease to efforts from local law enforcement and a push in preventive drug education.