Overdose

Tawona Pickens-Johnson, 46, was arrested in a city nearly 500 miles away from where the incident occurred, after law enforcement initially struggled to locate her.

A California mother is facing charges after her 18-month-old baby died of suspected fentanyl poisoning, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A couple was arrested in Pinellas County, Florida, after a baby in their care died from an oxycodone overdose.

A couple is facing child cruelty charges after a 9-month-old baby overdosed on fentanyl in Georgia on Saturday.

A man police were trying to find after his one-year-old overdosed on fentanyl has turned himself in to authorities in Laurens, South Carolina.

A woman in Fort Myers, Florida was arrested after her baby allegedly overdosed on fentanyl and later regained a pulse with CPR, police said.

A report from TMZ Sports claims that police records show officers found Colts Owner Jim Irsay unresponsive in his bed after they were dispatched to Irsay’s residence on an emergency call in December.

Overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 for those aged 10 to 19. Suicide attempts by the young jumped by 40 percent between 2019 and 2021.

A fight broke out between patrons at a bar on January 20 in Bellevue, Washington, but ended by the time police arrived.

Officials with Hays Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) in Texas said Wednesday they lost another student to a fentanyl overdose.

U.S. Senators who are also doctors released a PSA about the fentanyl crisis on Friday, calling it the “deadliest drug our nation has ever seen.” 

The deadly synthetic opioid known as fentanyl is hitting New Zealand hard, and drug abuse experts say the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was completely unprepared for its arrival.

Six West Point students in Florida for spring break were hospitalized last week after after four ingested fentanyl-laced cocaine and two others tried to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and were overcome by the drug’s effects.

Masks contributed to a patient’s death after they impaired communication between doctors resulting in the administration an overdose.

Donald Trump’s border security policies helped reduce deaths from opioid overdoses in 2018 relative to 2017, said Dr. Nicole Saphier.

“This has not happened through coincidence. It’s happened through causation,” Conway told reporters on Thursday, crediting President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and the entire Trump administration for working to reduce opioid deaths.

Democrat donor Ed Buck will be kept behind bars during his trial for allegedly causing the drug overdose of a young black man who died inside Buck’s home.

Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.

The evidence that pot, and pot alone, triples your chances of developing a psychosis is overwhelming. Berenson cites hundreds of studies showing a direct link between cannabis use and psychoses like schizophrenia. 

A journalist reporting live on the mass fentanyl overdose in California on Saturday was attacked during the broadcast, according to video footage of the incident.

A massive fentanyl overdose incident in California on Saturday left one person dead and sent a dozen others to the hospital, police said.

Two Florida mothers who overdosed on heroin were found lying unconscious in a car Thursday with a pair of babies in the back seat, police said.

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has experienced a spike in heroin overdose cases in the past 32 hours.

A grim government report shows more than 500,000 people died from drug overdoses in only 15 years, and confirms that “the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening.”

Jim Carrey was sued Monday for wrongful death by the family of his late girlfriend Cathriona White, with the woman’s estranged husband claiming the actor illegally obtained and provided the prescription medications that led to her death in 2014.

Nineteen people were treated for symptoms, including nausea and dizziness, after unwittingly consuming marijuana-infused candy at a children’s birthday party in San Francisco on Saturday.

Three people died after attending the Hard Summer music festival in Fontana, California this weekend, according to officials.

The late pop icon Prince died of a drug overdose, an anonymous law enforcement source told the Associated Press on Thursday.

Adult film performer Amber Rayne, who was among a group of high-profile porn starlets who accused James Deen of sexual assault late last year, died in her home in Los Angeles over the weekend.

In a moving moment at Saturday night’s ABC News presidential debate, candidate Sen. Ted Cruz shared the story of his half-sister’s battle with drug addiction in the context of the overarching problem of addiction in the United States. Moderator David Muir referenced

Sinead O’Connor has been found “safe and sound” in Dublin after posting an ominous suicide note-type message to Facebook.

Thirteen people were hospitalized in San Diego on Sunday after overdosing on “spice,” a variant of synthetic marijuana.

Actor and rapper Markice “Kesan” Moore, best known for playing Andrew on Season 3 of The Walking Dead, reportedly attempted to commit suicide this week.