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Charging someone for selling drugs is one thing. But to claim they are responsible for the death of the person choosing to take those drugs is absurd.

A new study finds a growing number of Jersey parents understand using prescription painkillers can lead to heroin abuse.

Drug users beware. Overdose deaths spike in Jersey because of a synthetic opioid that's being mixed with other drugs.

Based on one's willingness to accept treatment, charges can be dismissed.

The arrest of Nnanna Akuma, 26, at his Norman Court apartment on Tuesday brought a month-long investigation to an end.

Volunteers throughout the state will be going door to door to spread the word.

Addicts aren't shooting up or smoking or snorting to get high and party. They're doing it simply to stop being sick.

As the rest of the country seems to be slowly getting a handle on it's opioid crisis, the problem only gets worse in New Jersey.

Cape May county is fighting back against its opioid abuse epidemic that places the county third-worst in the state.

The vast majority of New Jerseyans consider opioid addiction to prescription pain medication to be a “serious problem” or a “somewhat serious problem” on a statewide level, but significantly fewer, about 7 in 10, say the problem is serious within their own community