Imagine a patient named Rosa tells you she wakes up night after night in a drenching sweat after having very realistic dreams of smoking fentanyl. The dreams seem crazy to her. Three months ago, newly ...

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On July 10, 2025, first responders in Baltimore discovered numerous individuals simultaneously overdosing in the same neighborhood. Twenty-five people ages 25-55 were hospitalized, five in critical ...

At last, after years of rising annual opioid overdose deaths, the United States began seeing a decline in such deaths starting in late 2023. Provisional U.S. data for the year ending March 2025 ...

Scientists are testing a new kind of defense against the deadliest drug in the U.S. overdose crisis: a vaccine designed to block fentanyl before it ever reaches the brain. Instead of reversing an ...

By 2018, fentanyl overdoses in Estonia had plummeted. But powerful new drugs are appearing fast, with the authorities racing ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But the dramatic proclamations gloss over a glaring reality: The administration is ...

President Donald Trump hosted congressional leaders and families affected by the fentanyl epidemic on Wednesday for a signing ceremony on bipartisan legislation that will strengthen prison sentences ...

As Republican lawmakers search for deep spending cuts, a growing number of critics fear a roll-back of Medicaid dollars spent helping Americans slammed by the street fentanyl crisis. A report released ...