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Addiction

Philadelphia residents from Kensington and beyond crowd a public discussion in April on a proposed supervised injection site on Hilton Street near Kensington and Allegheny Avenue. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Health

Kenney urges delay on Safehouse injection site, tells planners to look at other locations

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney urges nonprofit planning supervised injection site to explore other locations in response to pushback from Kensington residents.

6 years ago

Safehouse is considering locating in this block of Hilton Street in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. The proposed facility would allow drug users to inject under medical supervision. The neighborhood is known for its drug use. (Natalie Piserchio for NPR)
NPR
Community

Citing religious freedom, supporters sue to open supervised injection site in Philadelphia

Supervised injection sites operate in Canada, Europe and Australia, but one has never officially opened its doors in the United States.

6 years ago

Kelliann O’Hare and MATER director Diane Abatemarco practicing mindfulness. (WHYY)
Health
Battling Opioids

How mindfulness helped one woman battle opioids

What she learned was, “It’s all about being in the moment and being OK with what is now.” That helped her manage her addiction and made her a better mom.

6 years ago

This photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (Patrick Sison/AP Photo)
Health

U.S. warns docs not to abruptly halt opioid pain treatment

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.

6 years ago

A group of leaders from the local community speak out against plans for a supervised injection facility during a community meeting at the Heitzman Rec Center on Thursday night. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Safehouse vows to take more community input on supervised injection site plans

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.

6 years ago

In this March 7, 2017, file photo, the CEO of a methadone clinic holds a 35 mg liquid dose of methadone. (Kevin D. Liles/AP Photo, File)
Health

Pew recommends Delaware increase access to opioid treatment

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

6 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health

Gov. Wolf touts success of opioid info sharing system after first year

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

6 years ago

Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection facilityyt, provides people with clean injection supplies. Photo by Elana Gordon, WHYY
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Is Philly’s supervised injection site legal? Backers make ‘moral and religious’ defense

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

6 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
NJ Spotlight

Access to treatment for opioid addiction eased for those on Medicaid in N.J.

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

6 years ago

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Hardy Williams. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

State Sen. Williams makes supervised injection site issue in Philly mayor’s race

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

6 years ago

In January, medical officials at Philadelphia Department of Prisons were struggling to meet the demand for medication-assisted treatment among inmates as the result of federal prescription limits and unexpected staff turnover. Now, that problem has been solved. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Health

Philadelphia Department of Prisons will begin offering buprenorphine to male inmates again

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

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Mark Squilla
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly Councilman Mark Squilla moves to block supervised injection site

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

6 years ago

Heidi Wyandt, 27, holds a handful of her medication bottles at the Altoona Center for Clinical Research in Altoona, Pa., on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, where she is helping test an experimental non-opioid pain medication for chronic back pain related to a work related injury she received in 2014. (Chris Post/AP Photo)
Health

Housing grants go to people in recovery from opioid abuse

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

6 years ago

A man is angered by the discussion of a proposed safe injection site, yelling as he leaves a meeting Tuesday evening that provided updates on the Philadelphia Resilience Project's efforts to combat the oipiod crisis. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Community

Kensington neighbors angered by potential location of supervised injection site

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.

6 years ago

An associate professor of nutrition sciences at Drexel University partnered with a research biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find out why chocolate can be so addictive. (Bigstock/jockermaxxx)
Science

Why is it so hard to stop eating chocolate? Drexel scientist’s bittersweet research

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

6 years ago

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