(AP) — A convicted drug trafficker who helped dismember and bury the body of a West Virginia woman in Georgia following a fatal overdose was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison Thursday.

This is in connection to a teenage girl who died from an overdose last year.According to a news release, in the early morning hours of Oct. 27, 2022, deputies were called out to a home in Galliano ...

Jan. 26—The woman charged with murder and manslaughter in two overdose cases last year has changed her plea in both cases. Yashica Shenay Thomas, 43, has changed her plea to guilty for felony third ...

AUGUSTA — Illicit drugs and people who are using alone are the primary driving forces behind the record number of Mainers who died from a drug overdose last year, the state’s director of ...

A new study shows that reducing restrictions on buprenorphine, a medication that can treat opioid use disorder, did not lead to an increase in overdose deaths involving the treatment. The findings ...

The Food and Drug Administration aims to conduct priority reviews of at least two product applications for granting over-the-counter status to intranasal formulations of naloxone, an overdose ...

Ohio has been fighting an uphill battle against the national overdose crisis for decades. More than 37,500 Ohioans have lost their lives to drug overdoses since 2007 – reaching an all-time high ...

Detectives investigating a fatal overdose arrested a Massapequa resident Wednesday night on charges of selling and possessing drugs, Nassau police said. No details about the individual who died ...

Measures enacted in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase access to buprenorphine did not lead to an increase in the proportion of overdose deaths involving the drug, new research ...