Tag: Kensington

When Rob stumbled into The Last Stop recovery center in Kensington three years ago, he had no intention of getting clean or turning his life around.

The Philadelphia Police Academy’s new class visited the epicenter of the city’s opioid crisis. Officers told them to be open to unconventional solutions.

A Philadelphia police-assisted diversion program has expanded to the epicenter of the opioid crisis. The goal is to provide services to some drug users — not to make arrests.

The latest plans for the five-story brewery include 220 apartments, five retail storefronts and 42 parking spots.

Philadelphia has cleared the Emerald Street encampment, but many in the grip of addiction remain on the street.

Philadelphia officials say they will provide housing to all homeless drug users cleared from a camp in Kensington Thursday. But most shelters are already full.

Despite progress on some fronts, city officials admit other goals to deal with the opioid crisis in Kensington are taking longer to reach than planned.

The Philadelphia Resilience Project’s Safe Corridors initiative intends to make walks back and forth to school safer

CraftNOW, a series of events built around the Philadelphia Craft Show, presents artists as activists.

Sharps deposit boxes are Philadelphia’s newest tool in its four-week-old recovery campaign for opioid-plagued Kensington.

The city calls its new emergency-oriented approach “The Philadelphia Resilience Project,” acknowledging the deaths and suffering caused by addiction go beyond Kensington.

The disease is usually spread through contaminated feces.