First Responders

CHICO -- California authorities believe the powerful opioid fentanyl is responsible for a mass overdose event that left one person dead and hospitalized over a dozen others. Chico police responded to a call at a home on Santana Court early Saturday morning. When they arrived they...

One person is dead and 12 others hospitalized after suspected fentanyl overdoses in California that sickened two responding police officers, authorities said. Of the 12 overdose victims, four remained in critical condition hours after authorities responded to a 911 call around 9 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday at...

More people died nationwide of drug overdoses in 2017 than ever before, with a high concentration of those deaths in mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. (Photo: DNY59, Getty Images/iStockphoto)For the first time ever, Americans' odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are higher than from a...