Addiction

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The pilot program for distributing the overdose-reversing drug is funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Use of xylazine, a horse tranquilizer, leads to wounds that are very difficult to treat.

A federal court filing made Tuesday in Cleveland lays out the details of the settlements with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and distribution companies.

The proposal removes a requirement that harm reduction centers get permission from municipal governments to operate.