Addiction

“Fentanyl has taken over from heroin as the number one drug that’s killing people in Philadelphia today,” said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.

Any recovery from the lawsuits won't ease the financial burdens for many others affected by the financial costs of the crisis.

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.

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.

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.

With 1,200 overdose-related deaths in 2017, Philadelphia is suffering some of the worst effects of the nation’s opioid crisis.

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.

Since 2008, the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has doubled in the Garden State.

In the wake of a dozen overdoses in New Jersey, Delaware health officials are warning heroin users in the First State.

Residents, advocates for those with addiction, and community leaders told Council members that the city must do more to address the fallout of addiction in Kensington.

The safe injection sites, which will be funded by private donations and support from nonprofits, are part of Philadelphia's larger plan to reduce incarcerations for drug use.

Philadelphia officials updated the Kensington neighborhood last night on their efforts to bring a supervised injection facility to the city.

A discussion at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia looked at whether medical marijuana has a place in alleviating Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis.

'Carrying naloxone can be just as important as learning CPR,' says Philadelphia's assistant deputy commissioner of the fire department.

Council members’ questions for city officials took up so much of the three-hour hearing that other speakers, including treatment providers, did not have a chance to speak.