Addiction

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.

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 medicine is now available at retail pharmacies in most states without a prescription.

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.