It may be hard to define a melatonin overdose because no standard or safe dose has been established. However, in large amounts, melatonin supplements may disrupt sleep cycles and cause other acute ...

Opioid overdose is the leading cause of death among people from 25 to 60 years of age, accounting for more deaths than motor vehicle collisions, and has been declared a public health crisis [1].

Northern California’s first homicide trial in which a victim died of a fentanyl overdose stemmed from a case tried by the Placer County District Attorney’s Office. Carson Schewe was sentenced ...

Now, we have seen the first real sign of hope in more than a decade: a stunning 14% decline in the national overdose death rate. But change is possible. At Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center ...

He told reporters that although for “15 years” the number of overdose deaths was estimated at 100,000, it’s really 250,000 to 300,000 — “probably 300,000.” He repeated the claim a day ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Four people suffered overdoses in downtown Spokane Wednesday. Spokane Police say one person was killed and three others hospitalized. The incident was reported around 12 p.m ...

The city’s rate rose from 8.9 per 100,000 two decades ago, to 44.6 by 2023 when 303 people died – many of them at home, alone, from an overdose. ‘I’d go and sit in a café and this father ...

Those memories that Trottere holds are now wrapped up in pain after losing her son to an overdose in 2018. But Trottere is turning her pain into purpose, she said, to work toward a future where no ...

Over the past few weeks, people have been asking Scott Oake whether it was a cathartic experience to write For the Love of a Son, a new memoir that chronicles the years-long struggles of his son ...

A group of doctors advocating for overdose-prevention sites for hospital patients set up a pop-up site outside Comox Valley Hospital on Monday morning. Similar pop-up sites have been set up ...

for a possible overdose, said Sgt. Skylar Berry, Columbus Police Department spokesman. When the officers arrived, they learned that a 3-year-old child had been taken by medical personnel to the ...