Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the last two decades, the number ...

Between 2010 and 2022, pedestrian deaths in the U.S. jumped nearly 80 percent.Since then, the number of walkers struck and ...

In 2021, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office created the narcotics overdose death investigations unit in response to the ...

Covid deaths in the U.S. fell 69% from 2022 to 2023, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That put the disease as the 10th leading cause of death ...

Jacksonville has seen a significant drop in overdose-related deaths, halving from 472 in 2022 to 221 this year.

Overdose deaths involving opioids, including fentanyl, fell from 2022 to 2023. Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published ...

Drug overdose deaths decreased slightly last year, falling for the first time since 2018, early data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Wednesday shows. Still, overdose ...

Drug-involved infant deaths more than doubled (120% increase) from 2018 to 2022, with the greatest proportion of deaths in 2021 (25.8%). The most prevalent underlying causes of death included assault ...

Pedestrian traffic deaths declined last year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic but remained well above pre-pandemic levels, the Governors Highway Safety Association said in a news release ...

A Texas committee tasked with reviewing the deaths of pregnant patients will begin looking at cases from 2024 at its meeting on Dec. 6. This means deaths in 2022 and 2023, the first two years after ...