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 a lawsuit,...
The debate over supervised use sites in Denver is heating up, with both advocates and opponents of such facilities — which would legally allow people to use drugs including heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine under medical supervision — throwing out all sorts of facts and figures to support their respective...
SPRINGFIELD — A Hampden Superior Court jury on Wednesday found Gilka Rolon-Arroyo and Daryn Sampson guilty of involuntary manslaughter for supplying heroin to a Westfield woman who died of an overdose.The two Westfield residents were also found...
BENTON, Ark. — The number of deaths related to heroin and fentanyl continues to climb in Arkansas.Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge...
BARRIE – A low-level drug dealer poised to be sentenced Wednesday for the fentanyl death of his friend has moved to retract his guilty plea after learning the judge in the case planned to impose a longer-than-expected prison term. Ryan Walker pleaded guilty last December to...
SEATTLE — King County Health Officer for Public Health Jeffery Duchin joins New Day Northwest to talk about the increasing, and...
MARIN COUNTY, CA – A recent surge in fentanyl overdoses in Marin County has prompted a local initiative to make the antidote drug, naloxone, often marketed under the brand "Narcan," more available to the public through pharmacies, area health officials said...