Overdose

10:38 AM 12/31/2018 | HealthAnders Hagstrom | Justice Reporter America’s heroin and cocaine addicts are turning to test strips in the search to combat the increasing rate fatal, fentanyl-induced overdoses. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid potent enough to kill an adult male with just two...

The country's opioid overdose epidemic "continues to worsen" due to the "continuing increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids," according to a multi-year review of state data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis of drug...

James Steidl | Shutterstock As the partial government shutdown continues into 2019, too much of the media is focused on the political winners and losers of the budget funding stalemate and not enough on the reason for the shutdown. Democrat opposition to border wall funding is rooted...