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In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, a fentanyl user holds a needle near Kensington and Cambria in Philadelphia. Suicides and drug overdoses helped lead a surge in U.S. deaths last year, and drove a ...

Fatalities declined nearly 14% in 2025 to prepandemic levels, driven by a drop in fentanyl and other opioid-related deaths.

A University of Washington (UW) researcher said a treatment costing less than 50 cents could help people addicted to fentanyl make the difficult transition to a medication that can save their lives.

Mike Whaley knows what it’s like to live with crushing grief. The Lake Villa man has not been the same since his only child, Jacob “Whales” Whaley, died Feb. 14, 2024. “Losing a child was so unnatural ...

A few years ago, I hired a young man who lived nearby to chainsaw some trees on my property. He used the money I paid him to buy drugs — and died from a bad batch of fentanyl-laced heroin. Statistics ...