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Addiction

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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 years ago

President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House. (Courtesy of George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)
Politics & Policy
Marketplace

30 years ago, George H.W. Bush held up a bag of crack on live TV. Where’d he get it?

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

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announces charges against Liberation Way, an addiction treatment center, and other involved parties with fraud and conspiracy. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Prosecutors: Bucks company ‘exploited’ drug treatment patients to defraud insurers

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

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says he's against establishing a supervised injection site in  Philadelphia.  (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Wolf opposes supervised injection site for Philly, but won’t try to stop it

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

7 years ago

Louis Morano, who was visiting the Prevention Point bus for the second time, sits outside and waits to be seen by Dr. Ben Cocchiaro. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Health

Getting on board the buprenorphine bus

Doctors and Philly health officials are pushing for the drug, whose brand name is Suboxone, to treat addiction, but are pharmacies ready?

7 years ago

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, New Jersey State Police Captain Gregory Demeter and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brett Dreyer announce the arrests of three men in the takedown of a major fentanyl and heroin mill, in Harrison, N.J., that distributed its narcotics in wax folds stamped with the same brand names that have been linked to 227 overdoses, including 84 deaths, in Newark, N.J. on Thursday, March 21, 2019. (Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)
Courts & Law

N.J. authorities break up heroin operation possibly linked to 84 recent overdose deaths

N.J. authorities urged opioid users to ditch their drugs if they see certain packages after a major bust at a North Jersey facility producing heroin laced with fentanyl.

7 years ago

Former Governor Ed Rendell (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Rendell says Philly group near deal on home for supervised injection site

A real estate developer who wants to remain anonymous has offered a building in the Kensington area to Safehouse, the ex-governor, a member of the board, told a D.C. crowd.

7 years ago

Inside Insite, North America’s first public supervised injection facility, located in Vancouver. Photo by Elana Gordon/WHYY
Politics & Policy

Weighing options to fight opioid crisis, few U.S. lawmakers tout supervised injection site

With the DOJ trying to shut down Philly's supervised injection site before it opens, it seems unlikely even lawmakers who support the idea will provide help to make it happen.

7 years ago

Dr. Ben Cocchiaro and Louis Morano chat in Prevention Point's
The Why
Health

Getting on board with bupe: Why a crucial addiction treatment drug can be hard to get

Buprenorphine and other medication-assisted treatments could be crucial to treating those suffering from opioid addiction in Philadelphia. So why can it be so hard to get?

Air Date: March 21, 2019

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Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health

Gov. Wolf signs sixth opioid crisis disaster declaration

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf says the opioid crisis remains a disaster emergency, though there are signs that drug overdose deaths may be declining.

7 years ago

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