Addiction

Despite progress on some fronts, city officials admit other goals to deal with the opioid crisis in Kensington are taking longer to reach than planned.

Pennsylvania is considering holding more naloxone giveaways after finding even more demand than officials had planned for at a recent event.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Many rural communities lack basic resources for substance abuse.

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.