Overdose

The California man who died at an Aspen hotel on New Year's Eve died of "combined drug intoxication" which included fentanyl, the Pitkin County Coroner's Office said Friday.Jonathan Irons, 26, was found by Aspen police officers in a room at the Hotel Jerome just before...

ROCKFORD — Three people have been charged with drug-induced homicide in two separate drug cases, authorities announced Thursday. Karen E. Hernandez, 53, is charged in connection with the deaths of two people, Brock Palchik and Justine Wentz. Both victims overdosed on March 16, 2018. Wentz...

(CBS News) — Only on “CBS This Morning,” we’re hearing from the Massachusetts attorney general, who blames the founding family of a pharmaceutical company for helping create the opioid drug crisis. Almost 400,000 people died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC. In...