Teens account for 1 in 4 opioid ODs
As illegal drugs become more potent, it increases the odds that just a small amount could lead to overdose.
As illegal drugs become more potent, it increases the odds that just a small amount could lead to overdose.
Thousands of kids are sent to emergency room each year because parents or grandparents failed to properly secure medications.
Sara Riemersma overdosed on pain medication. Spectrum Health saved her life. As a paramedic, she's now paying it forward, saving other lives.
Deaths from drug abuse and suicide—particularly among young people—are fueling a bleak life expectancy forecast.
Reports of poisoning from this unregulated herbal substance have jumped 50-fold in the past six years.
After seeking treatment for addiction during her pregnancy, a mom shares a message of hope and recovery.
The majority of overdose deaths are attributed to prescription painkillers.
For instance, survey finds less than half can recognize anxiety.
Thirty percent of fatal opioid overdoses involved both types of meds, but number of people prescribed both has spiked.
In patients 65 and older, use of opioids, antidepressants, tranquilizers and antipsychotics more than doubled from 2004 to 2013.