Philly’s opioid epidemic is so bad Starbucks has blue lights in the bathrooms

The coffee giant also has needle disposals at the ready.

Election 2019

What drives low voter turnout in Philly’s hard-hit neighborhoods?

Potential lesson for 2020: political sniping does not bring people to the polls.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Philly’s new EMS overdose team is unlike any in the nation

Will the model work? Stakeholders are hopeful.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Philly’s health commissioner goes national with an op-ed in defense of supervised injection sites

Philly’s opioid crisis

About 1 in 5 incarcerated people in Philly have opioid use disorder, with 400 getting treatment daily. After a snag, the prison’s bupe program is open again.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Where will Safehouse open a supervised injection site? Study tags potential locations

The nonprofit says a 2019 launch remains the plan.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Philly’s medication-assisted treatment program for addiction is only 3/4 full — so the city launched a marketing campaign to get the word out

Philly’s opioid crisis

State officials say the opioid crisis in PA may be ‘starting to wane’ — but they’re tracking a rise in cocaine and meth

Philly’s opioid crisis

Recovery advocates are running a social media campaign to ask the DOJ to drop its civil suit against Safehouse

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Philly’s opioid crisis

The Safehouse supervised injection site is considering potential locations in Harrowgate — and some residents are not pleased

Philly’s opioid crisis

Study finds correlation between Big Pharma marketing and overdose deaths

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Philly’s opioid crisis

New Philly mandate: Fight opioid crisis with medication-assisted treatment

By next January, all 80 city-contracted recovery programs must offer it.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Many of the overdose victims in South Philly are construction workers or manual laborers. They’re often reluctant to look for treatment because of the stigma

Philly’s opioid crisis

Philly paramedics treated more overdoses last year — but used less Narcan

With so many people carrying the overdose antidote, first responders are no longer the first to save lives.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Would a border wall curb the opioid crisis in Philly? Not a chance, experts say.

Philly’s opioid crisis

Drexel alum Jeanette Bowles will be the executive director of Safehouse, Philly’s (and the country’s) first supervised injection site

Philly’s opioid crisis

Penn researchers are working on a virtual reality app that trains people to use Narcan

Philly’s opioid crisis

The Schuylkill County rep who thinks overdose prevention sites are ‘insane’ is back at it

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The Philadelphia Resilience Project’s Safe Corridors initiative intends to make walks back and forth to school safer in Kensington, the epicenter of the city’s opioid crisis

Naloxone, the anti-overdose drug, will be distributed for free today between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. at 80 locations across the state. Find your closest one here: