Addiction

Opioid payments for county governments and county district attorney offices equaled about $6.50 per resident across the state last year. But there were big differences.

Drug overdose deaths increased for the fourth year in a row, according to a new city report, including a 20% jump among Black residents.

The bill creates a zoning law that would prohibit sites across most of Philadelphia. City Council is expected to override the mayor’s veto.

The funding will go toward harm reduction-related projects, including strategies that address racial disparities in overdose deaths.

Kenney wouldn’t commit to vetoing legislation that would ban the sites in most of Philadelphia. It passed with a veto-proof margin.

Narcan is a well-known brand of naloxone, a medication that can reverse drug overdoses if someone has taken opioid pills, heroin, or fentanyl.

The mixture of stimulants like cocaine and meth with highly potent synthetic opioids is a fast-growing driver of fatal overdoses in the U.S.

Nearly three out of four people who ever struggle with drug or alcohol use survive and go on to recovery, national estimates show.

Many new first-year Penn Medicine students had never administered or carried Narcan nasal spray before attending the school’s third consecutive naloxone “boot camp.”

Experts say stigma about addiction and lack of training among physicians and other medical workers often limits use of these drugs.

A drug task force, a county detective, and body scanner at a county jail are some of the proposed uses that county officials across the state have sought clarity on.

Safehouse first entered settlement negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice in early 2022.

Deaths from overdoses of Xylazine-laced fentanyl have surged. The White House drug czar says he's marshalling efforts on testing, tracking, treatment, and stopping the spread.

The CDC concluded that by 2021, the "rate of drug overdose deaths involving xylazine was 35 times higher than the 2018 rate."

New Jersey lawmakers are going after fentanyl manufacturers and distributors to solve the state’s opioid crisis.