DMT use can potentially lead to severe medical ... “My main concern around ayahuasca is the risk of overdose and the risk of immediate harm to people experiencing the effects of the drug ...

Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of ...

Small Pharma is the first company to conduct clinical trials to treat depression with the psychedelic N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). “Combining pharmacological and psychological intervention is a ...

This brief uses data on overdose deaths from the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) data platform. Data are shown for the 35 member cities in the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Figure 1: Drug ...

However, overdose deaths remain higher than pre-pandemic levels. The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have been dropping for months and are now at their lowest levels in three ...

The decrease across the country is a major breakthrough in efforts to reverse the effects of fentanyl. Researchers and health officials say there is no easy explanation for the trend. By Noah ...

More than 100,000 overdose-related fatalities occur each year in the United States, so nobody doubts that the street drug supply is as lethal as ever. But for the first time in decades ...

Note: Some overdose deaths involved multiple drugs. By Maia Szalavitz Graphics by Sara Chodosh and Aileen Clarke Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy.

The National Center for Health Statistics reports that overdose deaths have dropped 10 percent over the past year. Is this just a pause in the fatality rate before a climb resumes, or is it the ...

Tasha Withrow, a co-founder of harm reduction organization Project Mayday, said Narcan wasn't something she ever had access to when she was using opioids. A person in recovery, she now helps place ...

But people taking the medication may also be at a lower risk of opioid overdose. Prescriptions for the drug were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with both diabetes and opioid use ...

Of 62,652 overdose deaths occurring between 2019 and 2020 recorded in SUDORS, 58,362 deaths had documented toxicology results ...