Addiction

After deliberating more than six months, the justices in a 5-4 vote blocked an agreement hammered out with state and local governments and victims.

Pa. expects to receive more than $1 billion in opioid settlement money. Decisions made by a powerful and secretive oversight board could set a precedent for years to come.

A state oversight board is expected to reconsider a range of programs, including money for county coroners, initiatives connected to DA offices, and media campaigns.

Cultural, systemic and historical factors have converged to create the perfect storm when it comes to Black overdose deaths.

The group was arrested after over a year of investigating and undercover drug buys, authorities say.

The Philadelphia Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund was created with the city’s share of settlement dollars from national opioid lawsuits.

Biden's attorney told jurors Monday the prosecution has not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. A prosecutor told jurors that "no one is above the law."

Mayor Parker also won approval for a $6.37 billion budget, her first as mayor.

A real estate firm is proposing a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Univers ...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved medications such as buprenorphine and methadone remain inaccessible for most people with opioid use disorder, Pew officials said.

The president's son has been charged in Delaware with three felonies stemming from a firearm purchase when he was, according to his memoir, in the throes of a crack addiction.

Safehouse’s appeal seeks to reverse a district court judge’s decision to dismiss the nonprofit’s case in April with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The hearing centered on a bill that would prevent the city from entering into a lease on a Fairmount building that residents don’t want being used as a treatment facility.

Residents say they were blindsided by the city’s proposal to house Kensington drug users.

A group of 400 parents and families nationally are calling for solutions that treat addiction and the opioid crisis as a public health problem.