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Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has delivered a clear message to Philadelphia officials: If you open a supervised injection site, the federal response will be swift and aggressive. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

DOJ’s Rosenstein: If Philly opens injection site, U.S. crackdown will be swift

Demonstrators press city officials to move on supervised injection site to decrease overdose death toll.

5 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

New documentary series shows the struggles, triumphs of ‘Getting off the Streets’ in Camden

“Getting Off the Streets,” a new documentary that shines a spotlight on a “zero tolerance” rehabilitation program for homeless men in Camden, New Jersey.

5 years ago

A used syringe is seen in a disposal container. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Community

Another spike in Delaware overdose deaths

Eight people died from suspected overdoses in a four day span, prompting state health officials to issue a new warning.

5 years ago

Sanitation workers clear away mounds of garbage from a heroin encampment at Lehigh and Kensington avenues. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Don’t call people ‘addicts,’ Penn researchers say

'Terms that seem to label the person have the higher levels of bias,' researcher says.

5 years ago

Bea and Doug Duncan outside their home in Natick, Mass. The coaching they got from the Community Reinforcement and Family Training program, they say, gave them tools to help their son Jeff stick to his recovery from drug use. He's 28 now and has been sober for nine years. (Robin Lubbbock/WBUR)
NPR
Health

Families choose empathy over ‘tough love’ to rescue loved ones from opioids

5 years ago

About a decade ago, the FDA started requiring drugmakers to add black box warnings to labels and prescribing information for Soroquel and other antipsychotic drugs. The agency made the change after the medications were linked to an increased risk of death among elderly dementia patients.
(Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

‘Dear Doctor’ letters use peer pressure, government warning to stop overprescribing

Too frequently Seroquel is given to people who have Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. The problem with that? Seroquel can be deadly for dementia patients.

5 years ago

Dr. Jon Lepley, director of infirmary and addiction medicines at the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philly jails expand use of medication to treat inmates with opioid addiction

The average jail stay for inmates in Philadelphia is about 100 days — and Dr. Bruce Herdman, the system's chief medical officer, sees that as an opportunity.

5 years ago

Listen 2:17
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Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 31, 2018

The New Jersey Supreme Court says a controversial theory about child sex abuse can no longer be used as evidence. An iconic Philadelphia ...

Air Date: July 31, 2018

Listen 21:04
Stacy Zeigler stands for a portrait outside Open Arms Recovery Center in Hanover, York County. Zeigler has been off heroin for more than three years. She takes two doses of buprenorphine combined with naloxone each day. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
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Health
Transforming Health

For some addicted to opioids, drug replacement therapy can be key to recovery

Former heroin users who go on an opioid replacement drug and who also participate in the clinic's counseling sessions are less likely to relapse.

5 years ago

An ambulance threads through traffic on Allegheny Avenue, an area that experienced an uptick in overdoses apparently caused by heroin cut with a synthetic cannabinoid.
Health

Synthetic marijuana detected in drug sample from Philly overdose spike

Sometimes known on the street as 'K2,' synthetic cannabinoids are a growing problem in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Delaware's Behavioral Health Consortium announces a partnership with Pew Charitable Trusts to improve access to addiction treatment in the state. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Health

Delaware partners with Pew to improve addiction treatment

Delaware is one of two states selected to partner with the Pew Charitable Trusts to focus on improving Delaware’s behavioral health system.

5 years ago

Suboxone, an oral film prescribed for the medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction and dependency, is pictured in this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 photo. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)
Health

With $1M state grant, Temple to address need for addiction meds in Philadelphia

The grant comes from a program trying to enlist more community-based primary care physicians in the fight against the opioid addiction.

5 years ago

Delaware health officials say a record number of overdose deaths appear to be linked to fentanyl. (File photo)
Health

Overdose deaths spike in beach towns of Sussex County

More than half of suspected overdose deaths are occurring in the southernmost part of the county, and health officials warn it might be due to fentanyl-laced heroin.

5 years ago

Candles, balloons  and plastic flowers mark the spot where an unarmed man was shot dead by police in Vineland, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Witness: Vineland police shot and killed unarmed black man ‘like he wasn’t human’

Residents of Vineland, New Jersey are demanding answers from authorities after police shot and killed an unarmed black man over the weeke ...

5 years ago

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The governor has twice renewed the 90-day
Politics & Policy
Transforming Health

Wolf administration touts opioid help hotline, other initiatives

Initiatives to prevent addiction and help those who need treatment show signs of working, Wolf Administration officials said at a press briefing.

5 years ago

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