This Sunday, Aug. 31, is Overdose Awareness Day. To honor the day and raise awareness around the opioid crisis, the Roanoke Valley Collective Response hosted a community event to remember those lost to overdose and share resources with the community, including harm reduction, treatment options, counseling and workforce development.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill on Friday that creates a new crime of "involuntary manslaughter for knowingly manufacturing, selling or distributing drugs that contain fentanyl, the sale of which results in another person’s death."

The Virginia Department of Education wants to hear from you on its suggested guidance to help local schools create effective action plans for school-connected overdose and timely parental notification.

The Houston-based production company, Texas-Pictures is telling the stories of people who lost loved ones to fentanyl.

Overdose Awareness Day will be observed on Saturday, and people gathered Thursday at the Taubman Museum of Art to commemorate the occasion and share addiction resources.

A new billboard is putting faces on the fentanyl crisis.

New data shows Roanoke has some of the highest non-fatal overdose rates in the country per capita.

Fentanyl has become a scourge across America and is taking a toll on the growing number of people living on the streets of Los Angeles.

A new report published by the Lynchburg Police Department shows that drug overdoses are increasing in the Hill City.

In the last three years, Danville Police say opioids killed at least 16 people in the city.

A new CDC study shows that drug overdoses and poisonings were the third leading cause of death for children and teenagers ages one to 19 in 2020, jumping 83.6 percent from the year before.

Alarming new numbers are shedding light on the ripple effects of the coronavirus pandemic on another public health crisis: addiction.