opioids

The young girl was alert at a local hospital Wednesday while her parents were being held in jail, after the life-threatening incident in Wall Township.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is seeing a rise in the number of opioids being mixed with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer.

Free naloxone kits, while supplies last, are part of the team's second annual Addiction Awareness Night at the ballpark in partnership with the state.

Raymond Catania admitted to prescribing thousands of powerful painkiller pills to a couple over the course of a year in Somerset County.

Law enforcement carried out raids at homes in Phillipsburg, Middlesex Borough and Linden, netting five arrests and recovering drugs, guns and a large amount of cash.

All 21 counties and 241 eligible municipalities agree to the settlement with pharmaceutical companies over their role in deepening the opioid crisis.

A man and woman face criminal charges stemming from a 16-year-old's fatal overdose on heroin and fentanyl, prosecutors said.

Fifteen fewer people died from overdoses last year versus 2019, even if the county prosecutor said the 2020 death toll of 149 was still "way too high."

The opioid epidemic got worse in late 2019 and through the early months of COVID-19, then improved in the second half of 2020.

A firm that sold ideas to Purdue Pharma and other OxyContin makers for 15-years will pay out millions, while also releasing documents from its communications with those companies.