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Bill to legalize fentanyl test strips passes Pennsylvania House committee

City Council urges city, state leaders to declare state of emergency in Kensington

Kensington

John Oliver cites Philly's former plan for supervised injection site; advocates for harm-reduction approach to opioid addiction

John Oliver Harm Reduction

'Massive' spike in overdoses in Berks County prompts warning about dangerous batch of heroin in area

Berks County Overdoses

Can a vaccine help fight the opioid epidemic? A clinical trial aims to find out

Opioid Addiction vaccine

Two men arrested in Atlantic County's biggest drug bust ever

Atlantic County drug bust

Philly's opioid crisis has been worse than ever amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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Bucks County traffic stop intercepts $4 million in heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, prosecutors say

Bucks Drug Bust Narco

Opioid overdoses are killing more Black Philadelphians, but fewer white residents

Philly Black Opioid Deaths

Fentanyl-laced drugs from Philly tied to body dumped at Pottstown Hospital

Pottstown Hospital Morales

Philly plan for opioid overdose prevention site shot down in federal court reversal

Safehouse Philly Opioids Court

Nine charged in Chester County-Philly drug bust, prosecutors say

Meth Heroin Chester County

Non-fatal overdoses increasing among children, CDC study finds

Child overdoses CDC

Opioid use, especially in large doses, can cause deafness, Rutgers study finds

Opioid use deafness

Pa. directs $2 million in grants to help people with opioid addictions find jobs

Wolf Opioids Jobs

Feds charge 11 people in alleged Northeast Philly, South Jersey heroin ring

FBI Philly Division

Most American adults should be screened for hepatitis C, health officials say

New U.S. guidelines call for most adults to be screened for hepatitis C

South Philly building owner pulls plug on Safehouse opioid overdose prevention site

Safehouse canceled

Safehouse's plan to open overdose prevention site in South Philly sparks contentious reaction

Safehouse OPS Site

Philly takes 'major step forward' in opioid crisis by expanding buprenorphine access

Philly Opioid Crisis Buprenorphine

Philly outlines safety plan for Safehouse overdose prevention site

OPS Philly Safehouse

Bucks, Montgomery counties receive funding for inmate Suboxone treatment

Bucks Montgomery Suboxone

'Operation Zombie' uncovers gun and drug trafficking scheme in Philly, Camden

Gun trafficking Philadelphia Zombie

To combat opioid crisis, Gov. Wolf expands college debt repayment program for addiction specialists

Addiction Specialist Pennsylvania College Loan Repayment program

Deep brain stimulation may offer a new tool to fight opioid addiction

WVU researchers use deep brain stimulation to treat patients with opioid use disorder

Pennsylvania health officials report three-day spike in Dauphin County overdoses

Dauphin opioids

Suspected heroin found in child's Halloween candy in Cape May County

Heroin Halloween candy Cape May

DEA authorized greater opioid production as deaths mounted, report finds

D.E.A. opioid Inspector General

Chester County parents arrested after 11-month-old ingests, overdoses on heroin while they slept

infant heroin overdose

Pennsylvania sues Purdue Pharma's Sackler family

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Jim Kenney, IBX kick off National Recovery Month in Philly

Jim Kenney National Recovery Month

28 arrested on gun, drug charges in major New Jersey busts

Trenton bridge

More Narcan needed in fight against opioid epidemic, CDC says

Carroll - Naloxone, Narcan

Feds arrest women allegedly attempting to sell $800,000 in heroin at South Jersey hotel

South Jersey hotel drugs

Addiction recovery specialists to be available 24-7 at Bucks County hospitals

Ashley Eaton-Riley overdose survivor

14 arrested in largest Kensington Initiative drug bust to date

Drug bust kensington

Docu-series 'Intervention' features opioid addiction in Philadelphia in coming season

intervention opioid addiction philadelphia

IBX Foundation dispatches 'Someone You Know' campaign to Capitol Hill

Marissa Wadsworth IBX Foundation Someone You Know campaign

Feds charge 22 people in alleged Atlantic City heroin-trafficking ring

Atlantic City heroin ring

New Jersey drug dealer sentenced to eight years in prison for 15-year-old's fatal heroin overdose

Madison McDonald fatal heroin

Drexel survey shows support in Kensington for overdose prevention site

Carroll - Kensington

Harvard researchers posed as drug addicts to illustrate the struggle for treatment

addiction treatment struggles

Pa. driver, pulled over for wearing headphones and then arrested for transporting heroin, has appeal denied

Dauphin County Police Bureau

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