Despite a national decrease, Washington reports an uptick in opioid-related deaths, raising concerns for public health.

Washington is one of four states that reported year-over-year increases in opioid-related death rates, according to an ...

WASHINGTON - While Eastern states such as North Carolina and Pennsylvania are seeing significant declines in opioid-related ...

Rep’s analysis, in the 12 months ending in June 2023, Washington saw 34.1 opioid-related deaths per 100,000 residents. By ...

A 50-year-old government survey on drug use may be in jeopardy. The entire 17-member U.S. government team responsible for the ...

Thurston County and its jurisdictions are "ahead of the curve" as they begin to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement funding from state and county lawsuits against opioid manufacturers ...

The president has said entitlement programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security will remain untouched, even as he ...

The initiative has seized 313,000 fentanyl pills, $125,000, 65 firearms, three kilograms of cocaine, authorities said.

The United States has been battling an opioid crisis for decades, marked by three distinct waves of rising overdose deaths. The first wave began in the 1990s with the widespread overprescription ...

UNFOLDING HERE IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. AND A BOLD NEW STRATEGY TO TRY AND STOP IT. YEAH, A TASK FORCE ON THE NORTH SHORE IS NOW TREATING OVERDOSE DEATHS LIKE HOMICIDE. AND IT’S ALREADY LEADING ...