For death from infectious and parasitic diseases ... been approved by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI). The study is accompanied and supervised by ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Drug deaths plummeted in 2024, according to new federal data. An estimated 80,391 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. last year ...

Drug overdose deaths fell by 27 percent in 2024, according to the provisional data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The drop represents a significant ...

An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 deaths in police custody that should have been considered homicides, state officials announced Thursday following a comprehensive review of ...

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 deaths in police custody that should have been considered homicides, state officials announced Thursday following a ...

Dozens of deaths of people who were in police restraint over a 16-year period should have been classified as homicides but weren't, state officials announced Thursday afternoon.Maryland Gov.

Provisional tallies from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics show there were slightly more than 80,000 overdose deaths last year, down 27% from 2023. Among the states with the most ...

Los Angeles County officials will launch an investigation into the soaring rate of deaths among people incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails, the Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday ...

And while the precise number of opioid deaths on Long Island last year are not yet final, preliminary data provided by state and county officials show steep declines in both Nassau and Suffolk.

By Jan Hoffman Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign yet that the country is making progress against one of ...

The DPA is a non-profit agency based in New York City that seeks to reduce overdose deaths with harm reduction and evidence-based methodology. "We believe it's going to exacerbate the overdose ...