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Addiction

This undated image provided by AcelRx Pharmaceuticals shows the dispenser and a tablet for the company's medication Dsuvia. On Friday, Nov. 2. 2018, U.S. regulators announced the approval of the fast-acting, super-potent opioid tablet as an alternative to IV painkillers used in hospitals. (Craig Sherod Photography/AcelRx Pharmaceuticals via AP)
Science

FDA OKs powerful opioid pill as alternative to IV painkiller

In one study, the pill provided about the same pain relief to patients as IV morphine.

7 years ago

Philadelphia city workers and community groups work to clean up the streets of Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Dozens hit Philly’s Kensington Avenue for first ‘large-scale’ cleanup

Miguel Sanders stopped in his tracks. Towards the tail end of the morning rush on Thursday, dozens of volunteers swarmed the busy ...

7 years ago

Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health installed needle drop boxes at SEPTA stations at three stops off the elevated train in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Needle drop boxes land in Kensington parks and SEPTA stations

Sharps deposit boxes are Philadelphia’s newest tool in its four-week-old recovery campaign for opioid-plagued Kensington.

7 years ago

Social worker, Lauren Rainbow (right), along with Police Officer Mike Buell (left) meet a man illegally camped in the woods in Snohomish County. They are part of a new program in the county that helps people with addiction, instead of arresting them. (Leah Nash for Finding Fixes Podcast)
NPR
Health

A rural community decided to treat its opioid problem like a natural disaster

While the bulk of fatal overdoses still happen in urban areas, the rural overdose rate has increased to slightly surpass that of cities.

7 years ago

Future (right) and Juice WRLD blur the lines between celebration and social critique in three videos. (YouTube)
NPR
Lifestyle

Could Future & Juice WRLD be trap’s Trojan-horse advocates for drug policy reform?

If it's hard to separate the celebration from the social critique, that's exactly the point.

7 years ago

Among at least some rural Americans, pragmatism may now be superseding traditional disdain for government and the prizing of rugged individualism. (Angela Hsieh/NPR)
NPR
Health

Rural Americans are OK with ‘outside’ help to beat opioid crisis and boost economy

Rural Americans willing to allow people from outside their communities to help with the opioid epidemic.

7 years ago

U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss details a new task force led by the DEA to arrest and prosecute those who distribute heroin and fentanyl. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Delaware launches overdose task force to prevent opioid deaths

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 ...

7 years ago

In this June 26, 2018 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Azar says the number of drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic. But Azar cautioned in a speech Tuesday it’s too early to declare victory.  (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Health

U.S. health chief says overdose deaths beginning to level off

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

7 years ago

First lady Melania Trump speaks during a visit to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health

First lady Melania Trump visits Philly to support tracking system for babies born in opioid withdrawal

After a brief ...

7 years ago

Drug addiction is a big concern to rural Americans, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
NPR
Health

NPR poll: Rural Americans are worried about addiction and jobs, but remain optimistic

7 years ago

Based on the memoirs of a young man suffering from addiction and his worried father, the film stars Timothée Chalamet (left) as Nic Sheff and Steve Carell as David Sheff. (Francois Duhamel/Amazon Studios)
NPR
Lifestyle

Addiction without an ending in ‘Beautiful Boy’

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

7 years ago

Teresa Miller speaks with members of the media during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Money

Wolf administration adds funds for families hit by opioid crisis

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

7 years ago

Delaware AG Matt Denn says more needs to be done to combat the state's opioid epidemic. (WHYY, file)
Community

Delaware AG: More treatment beds needed to fight opioid crisis

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

7 years ago

Delaware's Department of Health and Social Services Secretary Kara Odom Walker outlines the state's new effort to connect victims of substance abuse with social services provided by the state. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Health

Delaware trying to connect those struggling with substance use to social services

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

7 years ago

Sanitation workers clear away mounds of garbage from a heroin encampment at Lehigh and Kensington avenues. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Philadelphia wary of Hepatitis A outbreak as Kensington homeless population grows

The disease is usually spread through contaminated feces.

7 years ago

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