Overdose

Stimulant deaths

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

Philly health department is beefing up response to powerful vet tranquilizer

Safely storing medicine a critical way to prevent accidental child deaths

Safe Medicine Storage

Fatal opioid overdoses in young people often involve abuse of multiple drugs

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Children's Health

Robitussin, Dimetapp children's cough syrups recalled for potential overdose risk

Cough medicine recall

Chicago rapper Juice WRLD died of accidental overdose, coroner rules

Trend continues of Americans dying younger, study shows

This 6-minute video is the perfect explanation of what happens when you overdose

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

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Study: Overdose, suicide among top causes of death for new moms

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Turns out, medical marijuana has no impact on opioid deaths

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Sizable increase in cocaine and stimulant-related overdose deaths, CDC report finds

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These are the people most frequently overdosing on fentanyl

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Delaware mother raises awareness of opioid epidemic by releasing photo of her dead son

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Americans more likely to die of overdose than car crash, new report finds

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Drug overdoses and suicide driving decline in U.S. life expectancy

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

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

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Organ Donations

Organ donations offer hope and healing amid tragedy of overdose

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Watch: Fight and crazy overdose scene unfolds outside Center City bar

South 15th Street

Police: Lancaster man gave teen daughter heroin that caused overdose

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After Ohio officials upload shocking overdose images, local chief says he would have done the same

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HBO producer, ex-con charged in death of N.J. doctor, beauty queen

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Man charged with dumping Norristown woman's body on Bensalem roadside

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Montco woman charged in overdose death of daughter, 2

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Allentown police not adopting anti-overdose drug - yet

CVS offers anti-overdose drug without prescription in New Jersey

Report: Pa. children more likely to suffer fatal injuries than those in neighboring states

Heroin took a young life and left a family shrouded in pain and grief

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A heroin victim's warning to the world

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Pa. state police will carry heroin antidote Naloxone

Six deaths linked to tainted heroin

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How to keep holiday stress in check this season

Light Lamp SAD

After a lifetime of seasonal depression, I finally tried light therapy. Here's what I learned

Shinges Vaccine Dementia

Shingles vaccine may offer an additional benefit — slowing the progress of dementia

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Nurse who beat hard-to-treat cancer says she stayed strong by thinking of herself as a 'survivor'

Healthy Eating Flying

Here's how to still eat healthy at the airport and on a plane

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Suicide prevention: No more stigma

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