PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia health and medical officials said Friday that more treatment and outreach are needed to respond to the city's growing opioid crisis, which is increasingly attributable to ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials say they have a crisis on their hands because heroin laced with a synthetic painkiller called fentanyl has hit the streets and the toxic cocktail could end up ...
Despite the systems set in place by both the United States government and pharmaceutical companies to enable the causes of ...
Pennsylvania officials are stepping up the fight against fentanyl trafficking. On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday, alongside Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel and ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) - A Philadelphia man has been sentenced for trafficking nearly 3.2 kilograms of methamphetamine and over 300 grams of fentanyl into Morgantown, according to the U.S. Attorney.
More than 50 million doses of fentanyl and 76,000 fentanyl pills have been seized so far in Pennsylvania this year, with about 26.7 million of those doses caught in the Philadelphia area, said ...
Experts warn that political leaders are using the opioid crisis as a narrative tool while cutting funding to address addiction and homelessness.
(The Hill) — Multiple states have raised the alarm in the past month about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid tied to several dozen recent overdoses that is far stronger than fentanyl. Cychlorphine is ...
Fentanyl & Addiction Awareness Week on campus featured a series of events to educate students on opioid overdose risks, ...