
Addiction
Pharmacies, prescription providers dangerously clueless about naloxone policies
On a recent Thursday morning, I walked into a North Philly Rite Aid on what should have been an easy mission: I needed Narcan.
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Guest: Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Joseph Cappella Vaping is becoming increasingly popular among teenagers. They are ...
Air Date: May 1, 2018 10:20 am
Listen 36:03Guest: Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Joseph Cappella Vaping is becoming increasingly popular among teenagers. They are ...
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Benzodiazepines: America’s ‘other prescription drug problem’
The problem with benzos, as they're also known, is that they're highly addictive medications, both physically and psychologically.
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Inter-party sniping, a last-minute executive order over opioid prescribing in Pa.
Friday is the deadline for Governor Tom Wolf to sign or veto a bill that would create a drug formulary for Pennsylvania's workers' compensation program.
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Philly’s new plan to clear homeless encampments aims to take a ‘person-centered approach’
Philadelphia is launching a pilot program to clear out half of the homeless encampments in Kensington.
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Listen 2:26Bucks recovery houses striving to be better neighbors
At community outreach in Bristol Township, recovery home residents invite residents to hear how the homes work — and how important they are to those fighting addictions.
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Listen 2:14Philly overdose deaths surged past 1,200 in 2017. The reason? Fentanyl
“Fentanyl has taken over from heroin as the number one drug that’s killing people in Philadelphia today,” said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.
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Why Pa. counties are suing OxyContin drug maker
Any recovery from the lawsuits won't ease the financial burdens for many others affected by the financial costs of the crisis.
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Amid Pa. opioid disaster, lacking ID still a barrier to treatment
It's not easy to hold onto your possessions when you're living on the street, and that also goes for your license or birth certificate.
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Philly is ‘floating on opioids’: Civic leaders address drug crisis, share solutions
Philadelphia is wrestling with one of the nation’s highest overdose death rates amid a drug crisis that does not appear to be letting up.
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Debate over Philly’s safe injection site plan gets personal
Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites. The debate has infused their conversations, in all hours of the day and night.
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Listen 5:26Anguished families shoulder the biggest burdens of opioid addiction
In all the discussion about the cost of opioid addiction, Johnson says, there are few words about the toll it takes on families.
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Safe injection sites are one answer to the opioid crisis
With 1,200 overdose-related deaths in 2017, Philadelphia is suffering some of the worst effects of the nation’s opioid crisis.
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Homeless Samaritan still struggling with addiction
He says he used 'a small amount' of the donated money to buy drugs, but now he's in rehab and has been clean for three weeks.
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