Drugs

Delco cops drug bribery

Delco police officers told drug dealer about investigations and took cocaine as payment, prosecutors say

Alzheimer's drugs have no meaningful effect, new analysis says. But other researchers are criticizing the study

Alzheimer's disease medications

Recreational drug use significantly increases risk of stroke, study finds

Recreational Drugs Stroke

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have been gamechangers for weight loss. Can they have a similar effect on addiction?

GLP-1 Ozempic Addiction

National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin's 'ability to kill cancer cells'

Ivermectin Cancer Research

Many young people are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs at once — which can be risky

Antidepressants Mental Health

Quality time at family meals may lower teens' risk of using alcohol, marijuana

Family Meal Drugs

A 'fentanyl drought' may be a bigger factor in overdose deaths falling than increased prevention efforts

Overdose Deaths Fentanyl

Two men sentenced to prison for 2022 carjacking of a FedEx truck in Grays Ferry

FedEx carjacking sentence

Six illegal ketamine shipments seized in Philadelphia by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs ketamine

Trump reclassifies marijuana, easing federal restrictions but stopping short of legalization

Trump marijuana

A severe vomiting condition, dubbed 'scromiting,' is rising among chronic weed users

Marijuana Vomiting Condition

Fatal overdoses involving stimulants have spiked. Local health officials are responding.

Stimulant deaths

Philly's recovery housing complex now offers residents on-site addiction treatment medications

Riverview opioid medication

Family of Amanda Cahill, who died in a Philly jail, sues in hopes of preventing similar deaths

Amanda Cahill Lawsuit

For some, Overdose Awareness Day is more than a remembrance. It's a way to protest the city's approach to the crisis

Overdose Awareness Day

Customs officials in Philly seize $1.8 million worth of ketamine shipped from Europe

Ketamine Philly Seized

Pennsylvania gets $28 million in settlement with 8 opioid manufacturers

Opioid settlement Pennsylvania

Street drugs are being cut with a potent sedative, but criminalizing it may worsen Philly's addiction crisis

New restrictions placed on mobile medical services in Kensington

Philly health department is beefing up response to powerful vet tranquilizer

Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly's street fentanyl supply

For consulting on Peacock's 'Long Bright River,' Savage Sisters is getting a new recovery home

sarah laurel savage sisters

In new Hulu comedy 'Deli Boys,' a South Philly corner store is the cover for the family drug business

Deli Boys

One year into Mayor Parker's Kensington intervention, city officials tout lower crime, better community services

Kensington Crime Parker

FDA approves non-opioid painkiller, first new class in decades

non-opioid medication fda

In Kensington, outreach workers give out food, clothing and toiletries from trucks, but potential restrictions loom

Mobile outreach Philly

Stimulant users are caught in fatal 'fourth wave' of opioid epidemic

Stimulants Cocaine Fentanyl

Fewer teens are using alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana than before the pandemic

Teen Drug Use

The drop in overdose deaths may be the result of more veterinary tranquilizers – and less fentanyl – in street drugs

Drug Overdose Deaths

Marijuana disguised as a burrito found in Uber Eats delivery in South Jersey

Police Uber Eats marijuana

Family of Amanda Cahill, who died in a Philly jail, is still searching for answers

Amanda Cahill death

With TV drug ads, what you see is not necessarily what you get

TV Drug Ads

Three people charged in alleged scheme to smuggle weapons, phones and drugs into Philly prison

Prison smuggling

Zepbound, a popular weight-loss drug, is getting a price cut

Zepbound Price Cut

Six men charged in Bucks County with smuggling cocaine, meth from California in karaoke speakers

Bucks County Drugs

Montgomery County to open crisis center for people facing mental health and addiction emergencies

Montgomery County Crisis

Philly's 'dope' is ever changing, and that poses challenges for health care workers on the front lines

drugs front line medicine

Cops seize 19,000 packets of fentanyl, dozens of firearms during drug ring bust in Kensington

Kensington drug ring

Philly police to enter enforcement phase of city's plan targeting drugs, violence in Kensington

Bethel Kensington Police

Alcohol use disorder can be treated with an array of medications – but few people have heard of them

Alcohol Addiction Medications

Why it's important to pay attention to expiration dates on medications

medication expiration dates

Wegovy helps people sustain weight-loss successes for up to 4 years, study finds

Page 1 of 13 next

Just In

Must Read

Spirit Airlines, one of three carriers in Atlantic City, to shut down

Spirit airlines shutdown

More than 140,000 Americans die from COPD each year – here’s why survival depends on more than avoiding smoking

COPD Deaths

Philadelphia 250

First Mother’s Day celebration was held in Philly 118 years ago

Anna Jarvis Mother's Day

A Lehigh River rafting trip aims to build trust across political differences

RAFT for America - Lehigh

Joel Embiid probable for Sixers-Knicks on Monday; full injury reports ahead of Game 1

Embiid 5.3.25