Fatal overdoses have dramatically declined in Allegheny County
Almost suddenly, Allegheny County has seen a dramatic drop in the number of people dying.
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Almost suddenly, Allegheny County has seen a dramatic drop in the number of people dying.
Fayette County District Attorney Michael Aubele wants users to be aware that this drug can be lethal.
A recent dip in overdose deaths has been credited in part to wider naloxone access.
A local family said they're one step closer to justice after a 27-year-old Aliquippa man was arrested in connection with their loved one's death.
An Allegheny County man is facing several charges after allegedly providing fentanyl to a 15-year-old Oakdale girl, which resulted in her death last year.
The Fayette County Coroner's Office has released a first-of-its-kind report breaking down deaths in the county over the last 23 years.
Overdose deaths in Allegheny County have been on the decline in the last couple of years after a decade-high in 2017.
An Armstrong County man has been convicted of third-degree murder, drug delivery resulting in death, and other charges after providing a dose of fentanyl-cocaine that killed another man in 2020.
A 4-month-old baby in Beaver County is dead, the coroner says, from a cocaine overdose.
Opioid overdose deaths decreased, but there was an increase in overdose deaths from psychostimulants like meth and cocaine.
Almost 650,000 people aged 18 to 64 died of a drug overdose from 2011 to 2021, researchers found.
Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records.
The overdose crisis continues to change, and the Pennsylvania Health Department is taking a new approach to tackling emerging issues.
The growing calls for naloxone in schools are a response to increasing overdose deaths in young people.
Researchers found firearm fatalities among kids under 18 increased by 87.1%, and drug poisoning deaths increased by 133.3% from 2011 to 2021.
West Virginia is finalizing the leadership for a newly created foundation tasked with distributing the lion's share of the more than $1 billion in opioid lawsuit-settlement money coming to the state with the nation's highest overdose death rate.
The death of a police officer by a drug overdose in Cambria County is under investigation.
Allegheny County police are investigating after a 7-month-old Penn Hills girl died with fentanyl in her system.
More than a quarter of overdoses have been linked to the drug.
