Martha Bebinger

Hospital chaplains often meet people at the lowest point in their lives. We hear from one chaplain who encourages patients to discuss their tattoos as a way of creating an emotional bond.

What if people using drugs could get Narcan, clean needles and fentanyl tests as easily as Doritos or a candy bar? Harm reduction vending machines are ready for communities that don't fight their use.

There’s no single reason for the slight drop in opioid overdose deaths across most of the U.S. last year. But finding new ways to make Narcan available in public, 24 hours a day, is helping.

Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can exacerbate respiratory ills because of more fires, air pollution and allergens.

A recent study finds that nearly half of American adults know someone who died from an overdose. The RAND Corporation study was published Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health.

An estimated 42% of adults in the U.S. know someone who died from a drug overdose. That number is one of many in a Rand Corporation study that demonstrates the sweeping effects of the overdose crisis.

The surge in overdose deaths among teens is opening a new path to treatment: pediatricians. A doctor in Massachusetts shows how it works with a 17-year-old patient.

A mother monitors illegal drug use, at home, to prevent a fatal overdose for her daughter and others addicted to opioids.

Renae was so desperate to keep her child alive when so many others have died from overdose that she resorted to extreme measures — and extreme risks. She now supervises drug use in her own home.

An innovative pilot project uses emailed "heat alerts" to inform doctors and nurses of dangerous local temperatures, so they can advise patients who are most vulnerable to heat-related illness.