Courtenay Harris Bond

The 30 beds at the first site sometimes fill up, officials said, with people from shelters or those experiencing homelessness.

More than 20 organizations and individuals are developing and implementing policies to reduce the impact of the opioid epidemic on child-welfare involved families in Philly.

Union leaders say they have to fight for everything nursing home staff need to protect themselves from COVID-19, a virus that has been particularly deadly in nursing homes.

Marked by colorful decals, the sites are intended to help prevent COVID-19 from spreading among people on the street.

Until now, I have had little hope that my depression would ever really go away.

More people die by suicide than by motor vehicle crashes. And if you think you are immune, you are not.

I have trouble waiting for anything: a paycheck, the weekend, a manicure. Imagine my chagrin when my children, from birth, exhibited the same impatience that has tortured me.

One of the wonderful things about having children is that they introduce you to new experiences – to worlds you never inhabited in your ...

Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.

I awoke Mother’s Day to a sparkling spring morning, feeling generous and giving just like a good mother should. I glanced at ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...