Addiction

This week: supervised injection sites get a setback, food and housing insecurity among college students, and Philadelphia's new executive director of LGBT affairs.

Health Department promises to address concerns raised over licensing of facilities offering addicts medically assisted treatment

Earlier, City Councilmember David Oh introduced, to wide support among his outraged colleagues, a bill that will effectively ban such sites in Philadelphia.

Safehouse organizers have said they plan to open it sometime next week and offer services four hours a day.

Mayor Kenney, who supports the sites, said they could save up to 75 people from overdose death each year.

U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s suit to stop the facility “overlooks the complexity” of the situation, the judge said.

State attorneys general are finding a national settlement over the toll of opioids to be elusive, as some lawyers are renewing public criticism of the proposed deal.

A strategy to protect the facility and its neighbors anticipates a final court ruling clearing the way for the nation’s first supervised injection site.

When people are in unhealthy or unbalanced relationships, we often use a term to describe them: codependent. But what does that actually mean?

Twelve counties across N.J. will receive a share of nearly $1.7 million in grant funding for programs to combat the opioid crisis.

New policies meant to curb the youth vaping epidemic could hurt adults who vape to quit

Larry Krasner says his office will not prosecute for possession of the controlled substance, an opioid-treatment drug with a thriving black market.

They’re following the volunteer model made famous by Planned Parenthood.

As Narcan’s widespread availability saves lives, it complicates treatment efforts.

Roughly 1% of the doctors write a quarter of all opioid prescriptions, and another 10% write half of them. Half of the doctors don’t ever prescribe opioids.