Addiction

Pennsylvania is giving away anti-overdose drug naloxone on Dec. 13

Fighting the opioid epidemic with opioids: prescription heroin to treat addiction

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Smoking rates in U.S. have fallen to all-time low, but how did they ever get so high?

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Artie Lange leaves Pennsylvania rehab center to perform at comedy club

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Methamphetamine has been severely overlooked in the U.S. drug crisis, study suggests

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The scientific reason you can’t eat just one piece of Halloween candy

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Cooper, ARS to partner on $27 million, 90-bed addiction treatment center

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About 1.9 million vapers in the United States – and numbers growing

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Surgeon General: Alternative opioid addiction strategies more viable than safe injection sites

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Philadelphia Film Festival opens Thursday with addiction centerpiece 'Ben is Back'

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Dispatches from the morgue: Toxicology tests don't tell the whole story of the opioid epidemic

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First responders getting a special kind of addiction treatment

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Researchers block cocaine craving and addiction with a special skin graft

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FDA demands Juul, other e-cig makers address youth vaping epidemic

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Camden City Council resolution paves way for clean needle exchange program to resume

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Doctors prescribed opioids with no pain diagnosis nearly 30 percent of the time

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Teenagers' brains make them more prone to addiction

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Navy veteran describes 'slippery slope' into opioid addiction – and his journey out

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Rod Rosenstein pledges swift federal response if safe injection site opens in Philly

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Reduced nicotine cigarettes lower smoking rates, Penn study finds

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Vaping, hookah may lead to marijuana use among teenagers, study finds

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Are Snapchat filters causing an increase in body dysmorphic disorder?

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Sprained an ankle? In some states, opioid prescriptions are common treatment

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With $1 million grant, Temple expands clinic for medication-based opioid addiction treatment

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Naloxone remains controversial to some, but here's why it shouldn't be

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Doctors at Abington Hospital treat man who died from rotting throat due to cocaine use

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Study: More young Americans are dying of liver disease caused by alcoholism

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IBX Foundation highlights recovery stories of opioid addicts

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Opioid-related deaths in Pennsylvania are way higher than the numbers show

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Crozer-Keystone opioid center one of 'busiest' in Pennsylvania

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Fewer U.S. adults are smoking cigarettes

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How America got hooked on a deadly drug

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He started vaping as a teen and now says habit is ‘impossible to let go’

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City reveals outcome of pilot program at Kensington heroin encampments

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Making a difference with drones

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Opioid overdoses are rising faster among Latinos than whites or blacks. Why?

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Pennsylvania first state to OK medical marijuana to treat patients addicted to opioids

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For the babies of the opioid crisis, the best care may be mom's recovery

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Study: Unexpected medication could help smokers fight nicotine withdrawal symptoms

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Staying alive: How to fight an opioid addiction

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New Philly program aims to help people with addiction instead of arresting them

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FDA moves to cut nicotine in cigarettes to help smokers kick habit

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New Jersey bill calls for strict warning label on opioid prescriptions

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Best to skip the Afrin and other nasal sprays when you get a cold

What’s next for ‘safe injection’ sites in Philadelphia?

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