Addiction

Joel Davis thought he was taking a dose of heroin inside his Newark home on Feb. 15, 2017. What he didn’t know was that the drug had be ...

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year.

After a brief ...

What if you were trapped in the middle of a traditional addiction narrative forever?

The state plans to spend more to help families impacted by the opioid epidemic raise children.

In the past four years, about 1,000 Delawareans have died from drug overdoses, mostly as a result of opioids.

The effort launches as just 38 percent of Delawareans who are diagnosed with substance abuse make it into treatment.

The disease is usually spread through contaminated feces.

Disgraced former Philly sportscaster Don Tollefson is trying to pay it forward.

Guests: Beth Macy, Aubrey Whelan A “bad batch” of drugs, most likely a mix of heroine, fentanyl and K2, kille ...

Philadelphia wants residents to carry Narcan to prevent overdose deaths. But in the face of a possible emergency, a reporter found the reality is harder than it seems.

Nearly 30,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Penn’s Landing for Philadelphia's 17th annual Recovery Walk.

Drug overdose deaths "have been on an exponential growth curve" that began years before the rise in opioid prescriptions seen in the mid-1990s.

The homeless population has more than doubled over the last year, despite an effort by the city to clear encampments and move people into housing and treatment programs.