Addiction

U.S. health officials Tuesday warned doctors not to abruptly stop prescribing opioid painkillers to patients who are taking them for chronic pain ailments, such as backaches.

Directors of the nonprofit that wants to open a supervised injection site in Philly told outraged residents they wouldn’t move forward without further input.

Pew Charitable Trusts offers suggestions for expanding medication-assisted treatment in Delaware, as well as making sure inmates have access to the addiction treatment.

Pennsylvania officials say a system that tracks overdoses and information about drug investigations has been widely adopted during its first year of use.

Among their arguments: shutting down the proposed injection sites would violate the group’s Judeo-Christian convictions.

New Jersey is removing a barrier to medication-assisted treatment that should give Medicaid patients greater access.

At a contentious forum, Democratic state Sen. Anthony Williams said he's against opening a place where people could use drugs under medical supervision.

After months of searching for a doctor with the right waiver to prescribe Suboxone, the Philadelphia jail has solved the problem.

Councilman Mark Squilla has introduced a bill that could prevent the nation’s first supervised injection site from opening at the proposed Kensington location.

A $15 million grant program aims to help people living with opioid use disorder pay rent, utilities and other housing costs.

Residents have been working with the city of Philadelphia for months, so they were surprised to learn about a potential site for an overdose-prevention facility.

Your brain responds to the sweet treat using the same pleasure pathway addictive drugs use, new research shows.

Overall drug use, and the use of crack in particular, was in decline by 1989, but Bush turbocharged the war on drugs that night.

A grand jury found that Liberation Way orchestrated a series of schemes to profit from those in the throes of drug and alcohol addiction.

Though he won't stand in the way of a supervised injection site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf opposes the facility.