Addiction

Dwayne Fountain personally mixed the ultra-deadly opioid to make concoctions with cocaine and other drugs, then reformed them into bricks.

The program is part of a national effort to get the life-saving overdose reversal drug into the hands of people who truly need it.

Overdose deaths nationally last year dropped for the first time, but advocates say too many people still die of drug use.

Much of the public health agency's $9 billion budget had been in limbo but funds are finally flowing, according to CDC staffers.

A new therapy support group at Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation helps patients regain independence and identity with makeup and skin care classes.

Threats to funds for public health departments battling fentanyl overdoses come as some experts see the addiction safety net unraveling.

More than 50% of Philly residents have family or friends struggling with substance abuse. One in three know someone who died from overdose.

The organization has provided mental health and addiction treatment since 1994. Most services will stop by the end of May.

Medetomidine, a nonopioid veterinary sedative, could be overtaking xylazine in the street drug supply. The drug was found in 72% of street samples from Philly last year.

The Camden County township is among more than a dozen local New Jersey governments that were awarded $70,000 to better serve seniors.

A researcher posed as a case manager and called treatment providers across the city to figure out how easy it is to get medication that reduces the risk of fatal overdoses.

The decline in New Jersey drug overdose deaths follows a nationwide trend, as most states are seeing a drop in deaths involving substances like fentanyl.

PA Groundhogs and the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education monitor for novel and emerging substances by testing submitted street drug samples.

Investigators tracked a trail of drugs from a Mexican cartel to Delaware, seizing about 35 pounds of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth and “tranq.”

Since last May, there’s been a 57% reduction in shootings in Kensington, and police have seized 24,000 grams of fentanyl, according to city officials.