Robots replacing people on factory floors may lead to more "deaths of despair" among working-age adults in the US, new research shows.

Few if any communities in the US have escaped the opioid crisis, but that doesn't mean all communities have been affected the same way.

As COVID-19 raged across the United States, drug overdose deaths reached unprecedented heights. New research breaks down who was most vulnerable.

Filling an opioid prescription after a trip to the dentist is linked to a higher risk of overdose, not just for the patient, but for family members, too.

The opioid prescription you get after knee surgery depends on where you live. Many are at strength levels linked to a risk of overdose death.

Almost 72% of unclassified drug overdoses between 1999-2016 involved prescription opioids, heroin, or fentanyl. That's more than 99,000 additional deaths.

"The basic records being kept are annual reports on the number of deaths from drug overdose. But that's only part of the picture."

Naloxone can saves the lives of people who take high-dose opioids, but less than 2% of those who need it actually get it.

The closing of local automotive assembly plants may lead to increases in deaths from opioid overdose, research finds.

There's been a big rise in the number of teens taking and overdosing on benzodiazepines, common anti-anxiety medications.