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Pa. Governor Tom Wolf visits the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, which he calls ground zero of the opioid crisis. (Tom MacDonald / WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Wolf calls drug issue in Philly ‘sad and depressing’ after tour of Kensington

Governor Tom Wolf said more needs to be done after touring Kensington and seeing firsthand the impact opioid use can take on a neighborhood.

8 months ago

Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy with a more than $10 billion plan to settle claims that it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic by illegally pushing sales of its addictive OxyContin painkiller. The company's headquarters in Stamford, Conn., is shown here in 2019. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

The Justice Department moves to block the Purdue Pharma Sackler bankruptcy deal

A division of the Justice Department that serves as a watchdog over the federal bankruptcy system filed an appeal late Wednesday.

8 months ago

A pile of pamphlets for Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Wolf administration ordered to reveal details of cannabis use as drug addiction treatment

The Office of Open Records ruled in favor of Spotlight PA and ordered the health department to disclose how many patients are certified for cannabis use.

8 months ago

Kensington resident Roz Pichardo takes the contents out of her bag on April 27, 2019. Every day, Pichardo carries around harm reduction and emergency response supplies, like Narcan, a tourniquet, and a pulse oximeter. (Erin Blewett/Kensington Voice)
Radio Times
Health

The growing opioid epidemic

Opioid overdoses rose during the pandemic by 30% -- in Philadelphia over 1200 people died in 2020. This hour we'll talk about what's fueling the growing opioid crisis.

Air Date: September 1, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Penny Rogers
Community

Flags lowered to honor Delaware lives lost to the opioid crisis

Family members of those who died from overdoses lowered state, county and U.S. flags outside New Castle County government headquarters Friday.

9 months ago

Eduardo Esquivel at McPherson Square Park
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on The Street

Why Philly keeps a billion-dollar open-air drug market contained in Kensington

The containment of Kensington’s drug market demonstrates the systematic racism that plagues Philadelphia, Eduardo Esquivel writes.

9 months ago

Patients with opioid addiction who show up in a hospital's ER face many barriers to recovery, and so do the doctors trying to help them. Easing those barriers on both sides helps patients get into good follow-up programs that lead to lasting change. (Terry Vine/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Many ERs fail people who struggle with addiction. These new approaches might help

Many hospitals fail to screen for substance use, offer medications to treat opioid use disorder or connect patients to follow-up care.

9 months ago

In this Monday, June 17, 2019, file photo, Joshua Ni, 24, and Fritz Ramirez, 23, vape from electronic cigarettes in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Samantha Maldonado, File)
Radio Times
Health

‘Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul’

Time Magazine's Jamie Ducharme on the rise and fall of Juul and how the e-cigarette company went from helping people quit smoking to hooking teens on vaping.

Air Date: August 12, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Framed photos of Tyler Cordeiro
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Feds roll back ‘confusing’ addiction funding rules that had deadly consequence in Pa.

The change impacts people who need addiction treatment and use medical marijuana for a substance use or mental health disorder.

10 months ago

Fentanyl testing strips (JHU BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH/BLOOMBERG AMERICAN HEALTH INITIATIVE)
Health

Kenney: No more arrests for possession of fentanyl test strips

The strips allow people to test other drugs for the presence of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has played a major part in driving the country’s rising overdose death toll.

10 months ago

Larry Krasner speaks from a podium during a press conference
Courts & Law

Allegheny County joins Philly in backlash to Shapiro’s opioid settlement deal

The DA’s of Pennsylvania’s two biggest counties say an opioid settlement deal brokered by Attorney General Josh Shapiro won’t provide enough relief.

10 months ago

The exterior of The Pennsylvania Capitol
Politics & Policy

Wolf wants to extend opioid emergency declaration; GOP skeptical

GOP lawmakers say they’re still weighing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s request to extend a longstanding disaster declaration to combat the opioid crisis.

10 months ago

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf in Wilkes-Barre on May 19, 2021. (Gov. Tom Wolf/Flickr)
Politics & Policy

Wolf wants lawmakers to extend opioid emergency declaration

In a letter to the General Assembly, Tom Wolf said he plans an Aug. 5 renewal of the disaster emergency declaration first issued in January 2018.

10 months ago

Telehealth
Health

Delaware health insurers fined $1.3M for discriminating against patients with mental health and addiction issues

Delaware issues fines to insurers for not treating people with mental health or substance abuse issues as fairly as they treat others.

10 months ago

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Philadelphia City Hall is reflected in the windows of  the Office of the District Attorney. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Krasner sues Pa. AG over settlement agreement with opioid distributors

The complaint effectively asks a state judge to allow an ongoing lawsuit against opioid manufacturers to continue, which the settlement jeopardizes.

10 months ago

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