Addiction

At an unassuming storefront on a busy Brooklyn street, people sign up to use a bathroom outfitted to try to curb an overdose crisis.

Since 2013, district attorneys have filed the charge at least 412 times, according to March 2018 data from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

The sentence was far less than a punishment at the statutory maximum of 15 years of imprisonment.

Justice Department officials offered a statement late last year saying health workers at a supervised injection site would be vulnerable to criminal charges.

The proposed legislation would require that naloxone instruction be paired with curriculum that educates students about the risks of opioid addiction.

Vancouver is home to North America’s first, public supervised injection facility — and an explosion of spin-offs designed to prevent overdose deaths.

More and more, trouble is following fellow drug users, friends and relatives of those dying from overdoses.

Sharing personal narratives can help the storytellers see some of the good in their lives amid the trauma.

Fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin, was responsible for a surge of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year.

The study has limitations and can't establish that opioid use was a definitive factor in how people voted.

Those who overdosed were at a much higher risk of death the following year from drug use-associated diseases, HIV, chronic respiratory diseases, viral hepatitis, and suicide.

A new "gaming disorder" classification from the WHO revives a debate about whether behaviors can cause the same kind of addictive illness as drugs.

A state watchdog agency in New Jersey said corrupt pawn shops, secondhand goods stores, and scrap yards are taking advantage of the opioid epidemic to maximize their profits.

A free program at the Children's Health Center in Reading, Pa. provides resources and social support to new parents in recovery from addiction.

The hope is that when people become aware that their drug has fentanyl in it, they'll be more cautious.