RiverCom 911 dispatched first responders to an overdose. It's a call for service becoming more common year-by-year and a growing crisis that law enforcement ...

Grieving parents of children killed by fentanyl pills say the Trump administration has the potential to address the nation's drug epidemic.

DCF had 18 complaints of child abuse or neglect involving the mother’s other children, according to documents released in the ...

The House Republicans have voted to re-elect Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., as House speaker. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin and Garrett ...

A Dominican illegal immigrant staying at a migrant motel in Revere is being held in jail after being charged with 11 counts ...

The migration of fentanyl into illicit stimulants such as cocaine is especially dangerous for people who are not regular ...

Indeed, Wright’s resignation letter did not mention baby Phoenix Castro, who died last year of a fentanyl overdose at 3 months old after being sent home from the hospital over the objections of ...

Liberal San Francisco is eyeing at least one patch of common ground with President-elect Donald Trump. Top officials in the city — long a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants — have embraced ...

The death toll from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is falling for the first time since the drugs began flooding America's streets a decade ago. Users and police in this city's beaten-down ...

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to giving his dog fentanyl before stabbing the animal to death earlier this year. Jonathan Paluzzi, 45, of Kingston, received a sentence of five to seven years ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/BRYAN WOOLSTON) Naloxone is an over-the-counter nasal-spray medication that can save an overdose victim by rapidly reversing the effects of fentanyl, heroin and other opioids.