Addiction

Pennsylvania would receive $225 million to fight the opioid-addiction epidemic from a new agreement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma.

Advocates are lobbying Gov. Murphy to save the program, which they say has helped reduce HIV infections in the area by 50% since it opened 14 years ago.

Two Philadelphia addiction treatment providers face criminal charges for allegedly bribing recovery homes for referrals and forcing patients into substandard care.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million to New York state to settle claims that the pharmaceutical giant helped fuel the opioid crisis.

An on-again/off-again/on-again exemption means no special training is required for medical professionals to prescribe buprenorphine to up to 30 patients each.

In recent months, elected officials in parts of the U.S. devastated by addiction have scaled back or eliminated harm reduction efforts.

Nixon called for an "all-out offensive" against drugs. The U.S. is now rethinking policies that led to mass incarceration and shattered families while drug deaths kept rising.

Protestors, police, and encampment residents mingled on Kensington Ave., one day after a Villanova prof sued the city over its treatment of homeless people.

The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled “drug delivery resulting in death” statutes were applied too broadly in this case.

SEPTA is trying a new approach to keeping its stations clean and safe, while helping people suffering from addiction who take shelter in the transit system.

The ability to charge fines or fees could weed out bad actors and prevent ongoing harm, experts say, but there's already pushback from the provider industry.

Though behavioral health cases remain a small number of the overall emergency visits, the increase is causing concern.

A state department said a licensing program with financial and safety requirements for recovery homes will save lives, but advocates are pushing back on the added costs.

Online gambling and sports betting are booming and you can now play 24/7 from any device. But all this access and convenience has some worried about a rise in addiction.

With the opioid fentanyl pushing overdose deaths to record levels, officials hope buprenorphine will save lives in parts of the country where the drug is rarely prescribed.