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Addiction

File photo: This photo shows an arrangement of Oxycodone pills. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Health

After record-setting year, Delaware’s overdose deaths reach a new monthly high in May

Delaware set a new record for OD deaths in May. It’s the latest evidence that Delaware’s rate of overdose deaths shows no sign of slowing down.

3 years ago

Deb Walker visits the grave of her daughter, Brooke Goodwin
Health

U.S. overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says

The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.

3 years ago

Kim Porter (front row, second from right), and the Board of Be Part of the Conversation. (Provided by Be Part of the Conversation)
Health

‘It saved me’: Pa. nonprofit tackles stigma around substance use, recovery

The Pennsylvania nonprofit aims to equip people with the tools they need to understand and cope with substance use, addiction, and trauma.

3 years ago

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Customers wearing face masks at Reading Terminal Market.
Radio Times

The Regional Roundup: April 18, 2022

The controversial mask mandate begins Monday; a powerful tranquilizer making drugs more dangerous for those with substance use disorder; save Atlantic Sturgeon in the Delaware

Air Date: April 18, 2022 10:00 am

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Penny Martin (left) and the Rev. Michelle Simmons, founder and executive director of Why Not Prosper, hug outside of a recovery home in Philadelphia.
Health
Spotlight PA

Oversight of Pa. addiction recovery homes will begin soon, but operators slow to opt-in

Only a few dozen addiction recovery homes in Pennsylvania have applied for a license despite the licensing program being designed to bring more oversight to the industry.

3 years ago

Teens started dying in greater numbers from fatal drug overdoses in 2020, raising alarm that the trend could continue or worsen. (tillsonburg/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Teen drug overdose deaths rose sharply in 2020, driven by fentanyl-laced pills

For the first time in a decade, overdose deaths among teens in the United States rose dramatically in 2020 and kept rising through 2021 as well.

3 years ago

Signs advertise free Naloxone at a health event.
Politics & Policy

States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions.

3 years ago

A view of a street with houses lining each side.
Courts & Law

Camden County hails opioid settlement with J&J as ‘game changer’

Camden County will receive $32 million of the state’s settlement that will be used toward education and treatment for residents.

3 years ago

Volunteers from Savage Sisters Recovery, one of the founding organizations of HER.
Community
Billy Penn

New group HER is working to improve Philly’s dangerous recovery house scene, as the first state regulations take effect

“This is a life and death situation,” said the owner of Savage Sisters Recovery, one of the committee’s founding members.

3 years ago

Delaware State Police seized more than 330,000 bags of heroin including 2,500 'logs' of the opioid with a street value of more than $1.6 million. (DSP photo)
Courts & Law

Delaware police seize largest supply of pre-packaged heroin in state history

The record-setting bust in southern Delaware resulted in 44 arrests and the seizure of more than 330,000 bags of heroin.

3 years ago

An aerial view of Kensington
Community

Philly awards 2nd round of grants to Kensington community groups tackling opioid crisis

The Kensington Community Resilience Fund directs $200,000 to organizations focused on improving the quality of life in neighborhoods hard-hit by the opioid epidemic.

3 years ago

File photo: Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y., on Aug. 9, 2021. A judge said he is extending legal protections for members of the Sackler family, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma by another three weeks to buy time to work out a new settlement to thousands of lawsuits over the opioid crisis
Courts & Law

Purdue Pharma, U.S. states agree to new opioid settlement

The deal reached Thursday would require members of the Sackler family who own the drugmaker to pay as much as $6 billion in cash.

3 years ago

A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington in 2019.
(Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Corporate opioid payouts now being finalized would top $32 billion

This comes as communities across the U.S. are scrambling for resources to combat an opioid crisis that keeps getting worse.

3 years ago

A closeup of Sonya Mosey
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Justice Department finds Pa. courts discriminated against people with opioid use disorder

A letter from the DOJ could have widespread ramifications for Pennsylvanians under a court’s supervision and use doctor-prescribed medications to treat opioid use disorder.

3 years ago

File - Supplies are shown on a desk at Safer Inside, a realistic model of a safe injection site in San Francisco,  Aug. 29, 2018. The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses. The department's stance comes a year after federal prosecutors won a major court ruling that found the sites would violate federal law. The Justice Department tells The Associated Press it is talking to regulators about “appropriate guardrails” for the sites. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Courts & Law

Justice Dept. signals it may allow safe injection sites

The position is a drastic change from its stance in the Trump administration, when prosecutors fought vigorously against a plan to open a safe consumption site in Philadelphia

3 years ago

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