FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno County has made major progress in the fight against fentanyl, with overdose deaths dropping to a five-year low. "We're at a better place," District Attorney Lisa ...

A nationwide drop in overdose deaths may be driven by a collapse of the international fentanyl supply chain in 2023, a Maryland criminologist in world drug markets reported in the journal Science. “We ...

Beginning in 2023, there was less fentanyl in the U.S. drug supply. The opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone’s availability is increasing and so is access to addiction treatment. Experts say the ...

Overdose deaths in adults age 65 and older from fentanyl mixed with stimulants, such as cocaine and methamphetamines, have surged 9,000% in the past eight years, matching rates found among younger ...

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it if she had any clean needles or naloxone, a medication that can reverse the ...

There may soon be a new way to limit deaths caused by fentanyl. A preventative vaccine for fentanyl exposure is set to begin human trials and could change the landscape of drug overdoses in the U.S.