Mayor Quinton Lucas held a “Fentanyl Summit” Friday afternoon at the Kansas City Health Department to raise awareness on the fentanyl and opioid crisis in the city.
Drug overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum people soared significantly between 2018 and 2021, according to a report published Wednesday. The increase parallels a persistent rise in drug-related deaths across the nation since the onset of the opioid epidemic in the 1990s. Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse collected and analyzed data on more than 17,000 deaths, including people who were pregnant or who had been pregnant within the past year. They found that the ratio of o
Ambulance personnel in Northern Ireland are called to about 2,000 overdoses per quarter as Stormont stalemate leaves region without ministers to make decisions