This morning, at the annual Education & Training Awards breakfast, the NYC Building & Construction Industry Safety Fund ...

Did these men just happen upon people who took fentanyl on five different occasions?” Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.

More New Yorkers received scripts for buprenorphine, a med used to treat opioid addiction, amid fight against record-high ...

The newly reported data suggested improved access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction contributed to recent downturns in drug overdose deaths, which declined 9% in New York ...

A settlement agreement with Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family, could bring in another $250 million to New York ...

The money could benefit the 14 syringe service programs across the five boroughs that offer harm reduction services.

It's a frustrating cycle for longtime New York paramedics — one ... but in reducing opioid use and then reducing the risk of death," he added of buprenorphine. For the past three legislative ...

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in ...

Councilmembers Linda Lee and Mercedes Narcisse, who chair the mental health and hospitals committees, respectively, held a ...