Addiction

On a recent Thursday morning, I walked into a North Philly Rite Aid on what should have been an easy mission: I needed Narcan.

The problem with benzos, as they're also known, is that they're highly addictive medications, both physically and psychologically.

Friday is the deadline for Governor Tom Wolf to sign or veto a bill that would create a drug formulary for Pennsylvania's workers' compensation program.

Philadelphia is launching a pilot program to clear out half of the homeless encampments in Kensington.

At community outreach in Bristol Township, recovery home residents invite residents to hear how the homes work — and how important they are to those fighting addictions.

“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.

In all the discussion about the cost of opioid addiction, Johnson says, there are few words about the toll it takes on families.

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.