President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating Fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. What does that mean?

To hear US President Donald Trump and his aides tell it, a military campaign to blow up suspected drug-carrying boats in international waters off Latin America has saved more than 2.3 million ...

Indiana has launched two new dashboards aimed at tracking drug overdose data and violent crimes. Advocates say the overdose ...

The declaration of fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction is the latest move by President Donald Trump casting the nation’s ...

Davidson County is finally seeing a decline in overdose deaths, but deadly new drug combinations threaten progress.

The three suspects arrested in connection with the overdoses of seven Providence College students​ made their appearances in ...

CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A Jacksonville man has been charged with a drug overdose death that happened more than a year ago. Craven County deputies arrested Robert Moore, Jr. on Friday for felony ...

Fatal overdoses are down in most parts of the country. Worcester, Massachusetts, has seen a dramatic drop in deaths. Officials credit a hands-on approach to helping drug users where they are. Overdose ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

The nation’s top vaccine regulator on Friday laid out a stricter approach for federal vaccine approvals, citing his team’s conclusion, without detailing the evidence, that coronavirus vaccines had ...

Deaths from whooping cough have been recorded in Louisiana and Washington. More than 25,000 cases of whooping cough have been recorded in the U.S. so far this year, updated federal data shows. This ...

In the end, there was no big legal fight over the estate of world-famous porn star Jesse Jane after all. Turns out there wasn't that much to fight about anyway. Jane, 43, died of a drug overdose in ...