NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood has become widely regarded as ground zero for xylazine — a.k.a. “tranq” — a veterinary drug that’s being added to fentanyl with devastating affects. Disturbing ...

Experts view a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking it as a promising development that could cut overdose deaths and reduce needle-related harms.

FILE - A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S.

Among rural people with chronic HCV infection and a history of injection drug use, a mobile telemedicine-based intervention ...

(CNN) — The percentage of overdose deaths linked to smoking drugs rose sharply in recent years, overtaking injection as the leading route of drug use involved in such deaths, according to a new ...

The recently passed Philadelphia budget that removes funding for syringes in the life-saving needle exchange services is a misguided step that will harm not just people who inject drugs but the ...

Renewing and sustaining syringe exchange programs is essential to protecting public health, saving lives and maintaining the ...