Heroin

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Staying alive: How to fight an opioid addiction

Safe Injection Sites

State rep: proposed safe injection sites in Philly are 'dangerous'

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Authorities seize massive amount of Chinese fentanyl on Main Line

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New Jersey bill calls for strict warning label on opioid prescriptions

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Historic New Jersey drug bust has ties to Jersey Shore, prosecutors say

Ocean County drug bust

Philly D.A.'s lawsuit tries new tack against opioid drug makers

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A.G.: Major Philly drug raid nets $2.6 million in heroin, fentanyl

Fentanyl Bust

Safe injection sites: the right thing to do now was right thing to do in '80s

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

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Philly man sent to prison in record-setting New Jersey fentanyl seizure

Carrillo Pineda

Philly sues pharmaceutical companies claiming they have liability in opioid crisis

Sozi Pedro Tulante

Pa. GOP hopeful claims Wolf's opioid disaster declaration infringes on gun rights

Scott Wagner GOP Pennsylvania

Police: Woman left $100K of heroin outside Bucks County middle school

Natasha Willis

Inside a private eye's search for a teen heroin addict in Kensington

Carroll - Private Investigator Searches for Missing Teen in Kensington

Pennsylvania declares disaster emergency for heroin, opioid epidemic

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Kensington is worst nightmare for family of runaway daughter

Carroll - Private Investigator Searches for Missing Teen in Kensington

Philly opens temporary warming center in response to bitter cold

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Philly creates overdose response unit to address addiction crisis in Kensington

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Pennsylvania Sheetz store installs blue lights in bathroom to ward off drug use

Sheetz Store

Young married couple arrested in Plymouth Township drug deal stabbing

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Philly health department finds youth hep-C cases fueled by opioid epidemic

Report: Arrest made in Camden after 14 overdose on fentanyl

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Pennsylvania offering $5 million in naloxone kits to first responders

In son's obituary, New Jersey family warns 'intuition' could prevent opioid relapse

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D.A.: Enough Fentanyl seized to threaten half of Montgomery County

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SEPTA: Pregnant woman taken to hospital after overdosing twice in Kensington

As drug overdose deaths climb, Philly offers free Narcan training

DA: Major Northeast Philly drug bust nets $370,000 in heroin, fentanyl

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Man sentenced to prison for bags of heroin labeled 'Donald Trump'

Police seize 850 bags of heroin from North Wildwood man

10 arrested, thousands of bags of heroin found in 'major' Northeast Philly bust

Report: Number of infants exposed to illegal drugs soars in SE Pennsylvania

A long and winding road: Kicking heroin in an opioid ‘treatment desert’

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New Jersey funeral director's emotional blog: 'F--- you, Opioids'

DEA: Pennsylvania drug overdose deaths jumped 37 percent in 2016

Fentanyl Heroin comparison

Tony Luke Jr. shares #BrownandWhite PSA to change views on heroin addiction

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D.A.: Super-potent carfentanil killed Chester County overdose victim

Feds: Philly man sold lethal fentanyl on dark web marketplace AlphaBay

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Montgomery County reports its first deaths from dangerous opioid carfentanil

Tony Luke wants to end stigma of heroin addiction after son's death

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46 arrested in drug bust as Chester County works to curb overdose deaths

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Independence Blue Cross to place new limit on opioid drug prescriptions

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