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South Central Emergency Services Chief and CEO Jason Campbell stands next to an EMS vehicle. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
Health
PA Post

Pa. offering paramedics wrong naloxone dose, health dept says

The Department of Health's policy directs the use of intravenous doses, not the nasal spray.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman talks about steps taken to ensure access to opioid addiction treatment during a visit to a Walgreens pharmacy in Kensington.
Health

Pennsylvania leading the way in making addiction treatment more available

Opioid prescriptions have fallen by 28 percent in Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2018, but overdoses and deaths continue to rise.

7 years ago

Charles Greif, 27, accepts a naloxone pack from Philadelphia health department worker Fatimah Maiga at Holmsburg Library, one of 80 sites across Pennsylvania where the overdose reversal drug was distributed for free.
Health

Naloxone, just in case: Pennsylvania hands out thousands of overdose-reversal kits

More than 5,100 kits were made available at 80 health clinics, libraries and public spaces across Pennsylvania.

7 years ago

A grinch Governor Wolf appears on a flyer inviting Philadelphians to create holiday cards to send to Governor Wolf asking him to end a DOC policy that doesn’t allow families to send cards of photos to incarcerated family members. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Holiday card campaign to Gov. Wolf calls for repeal of Pa.'s new prison mail policy

The new policy was put in place in August when staff and inmates fell ill after drug exposure. Mail now goes to a facility in Florida, and inmates receive a scanned copy.

7 years ago

Listen 1:37
Packages containing a nasal inhalant
Health
PA Post

Pa. prepares to give out free overdose reversal drugs Thursday

Eighty locations across Pennsylvania are getting ready to hand out free naloxone this Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

7 years ago

Emergency Dr. Jeanmarie Perrone (right) joins Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine to announce new prescription guidelines for emergency room doctors dealing with opioids and opioid addiction.
Health

Updated Pa. guidelines say all ERs should treat addicted patients with medication

The guidelines say all emergency departments in the state should be ready to treat patients who are already addicted with medications that prevent painful withdrawal symptoms.

7 years ago

Listen 1:15
Located in Northern Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Superior, Ashland, Wis. has had enough of substance abuse issue. NorthLakes Community Clinic brought in Dr. Mark Lim to start a team providing substance abuse and mental health services. (Derek Montgomery for NPR)
NPR
Health

For one rural community, fighting addiction started with recruiting the right doctor

Many rural communities lack basic resources for substance abuse.

7 years ago

Julia Chapman says she feels guilty every day that her son was born addicted to opioids. She said her mental illness contributed to her drug use, and she hopes to help her son learn from her experiences. (PA Post)
Health
PA Post

Mental illness, substance-use disorder often occur together

Julia Chapman knows her mental illness played a role in heroin use.

7 years ago

Piles of trash in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philadelphia organizes second major Kensington street cleaning of 2018

City workers and volunteers in Philadelphia are teaming up for the second time in as many months to beautify dozens of trash and needle-s ...

7 years ago

In several European countries and Canada, patients with longterm opioid addiction are prescribed pharmaceutical grade heroin which they inject in clinics like the Patrida Medical Clinic in Berlin. Some addiction specialists want to pilot similar programs in the U.S. (Picture alliance/picture alliance via Getty Image)
NPR
Health

Is America ready for prescription heroin?

Prescription heroin as a form of maintenance therapy dates back to the early 1920s in the UK.

7 years ago

Offering therapy to children in need at school makes sense, says Sarah Nadeau, who adopted two girls from a family that struggled with addiction, because sometimes school is the only stable place they have (Getty Images)
NPR
Health

School-based counselors help kids cope with fallout from drug addiction

Congress authorized millions to fund mental health services to help schools treat students who have experienced trauma due to the opioid epidemic.

7 years ago

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (right) talks about his $10 million donation to help Pennsylvania combat the opioid crisis during a visit to Thomas Jefferson Maternal Addiction Treatment clinic. He is accompanies by Gov. Tom Wolf.
Money

Pa. getting $10 million under first Bloomberg grant to combat opioid addiction

Former New York City mayor picked Pennsylvania to get the initial grant because of the severity of the crisis in the state and Gov. Tom Wolf’s work toward solutions.

7 years ago

Syringes of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller, sit in an inpatient facility in Salt Lake City. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid-related overdoses have contributed to the life expectancy drop in the U.S. (Rick Bowmer/AP)
NPR
Health

U.S. life expectancy drops amid ‘disturbing’ rise in overdoses and suicides

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year alone, according to the CDC. That number marks a nearly 10 percent increase from 2016.

7 years ago

Shawn Ellerman, of the Philadelphia Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, speaks to Philadelphia school children during a youth summit on drug prevention at Temple University.
Education

Aiming to raise awareness about drugs, DEA hosts summit for Philly kids

DEA says community outreach efforts — including sponsoring after-school and summer programs — are as vital as its law enforcement mission in addressing the opioid epidemic.

7 years ago

Listen 1:31
Kensington Avenue on Friday, November 23, 2018. (Solomon Jones for WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Rethinking the Kensington drug crisis

I went to Kensington on Black Friday and saw the devastation of the heroin crisis.

7 years ago

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