At a press briefing Thursday, Dr. Gary Tsai, county director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control, said ...

The number of homeless people dying in Los Angeles County has leveled off, with data showing a 1% mortality rate increase in ...

This year's report also included a footnote indicating that the initial 2022 finding of a leveling off of the overdose rate had to be revised upward due to a backlog of toxicology tests at the ...

Homeless mortality rates were slowed by a leveling off of drug overdose deaths from 2022-2023. This was attributed to the distribution of naloxone, a medication spray that reverses opioid ...