Jasveen Sangha admitted to working with another dealer to provide the "Friends" actor with dozens of vials of ketamine in the weeks before his fatal overdose.
San Mateo County is thinking "outside of the box" to reduce overdose deaths by installing purple boxes stocked with free Narcan, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, at transit hubs and public spaces.
New details have been released in the death of 29-year-old Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who was raised in San Mateo County and became one of the most influential voices in the chess world.
The California Department of Public Health is sounding the alarm on Kratom, as well as a potent derivative of the plant called 7-OH, in the wake of six recent overdose deaths in Los Angeles County. Kratom and 7-OH products are not FDA-approved and are not legal for retailers to sell.
A North Bay couple and their organization is fighting the fentanyl crisis one old newspaper box at a time. They're repurposing and filling them with Narcan, a potentially life-saving drug. For free.