Addiction

'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.

City Council will hold a second public hearing in April in Kensington, where residents will able to tell officials how the opioid crisis is affecting their community.

Over a decade, more than 3,600 children were admitted hospitals for opioid ingestion — about 800 between 2004 and 2007 and more than 1,500 between 2012 and 2015.

Sheila Dhand is a wound care nurse with Prevention Point Philadelphia’s mobile unit. She cares for skin and soft tissue infections often resulting from injecting drugs.

Injecting drugs can cause serious, life-threatening wounds. As the drug crisis escalates, some clinics are teaching simple techniques to reduce the risk of infection.

Emergency departments have been the first line of defense when it comes to opioid overdoses for a long time.

The Philadelphia Dept. of Public Health is running TV and social media ads warning people to avoid prescription painkillers, even when they get them legally from their doctor.

Pa.'s Medicaid program will no longer require doctors to get approval when prescribing medications that are proven to help people stay off heroin and prescription painkillers.

The FDA is expected to issue new guidelines next month to encourage drugmakers to develop new medications for treating opioid addiction.

Judge tells Dr. Alan Summers, 79, that his clinic 'made an absolute mockery' of the medical profession by supplying addicts and dealers with drugs.

The 10 hospitals that took part in the collaboration were scattered all over Colorado.

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When the policy change takes effect March 1, many covered under its health insurance plans will be able to obtain the drug at no cost.

As Philadelphia mulls opening what could be the nation’s first safe-injection site, questions swirl about its location. Researchers are trying to figure that out.