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Drug Overdose

a child standing alone, with a shadow of an adult figure behind them fading away, symbolizing the loss of a parent to drug overdose.

Over 320,000 U.S. Children Lost a Parent to Drug Overdose From 2011-2021

Kim D. Janda, PhD, the Ely R. Callaway, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Scripps Research. Credit: Scripps Research

Scientists Develop Vaccine to Combat “Zombie Drug” Xylazine Overdose

Illustration of person being fed pills. Pixabay

More Buprenorphine Helps Keep People in Opioid Treatment

A simplified schema of the four waves of the US overdose mortality crisis. Waves 1 and 2 include deaths involving commonly prescribed opioids, and heroin, respectively, but excluding fentanyl co-involved deaths. Wave 3 and Wave 4 show fentanyl deaths not involving, and involving, stimulants respectively as distinct trends. Data from CDC WONDER.

The fourth wave of the US overdose crisis: fentanyl and stimulants

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