PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a drug-addicted man died while being held in a prison cell. Attorneys at Weir LLP filed a petition to ...

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA -- A doctor has admitted his role in peddling prescriptions from a now-defunct clinic in Philadelphia that specialized in helping drug addicts. Seventy-eight-year-old Dr. Alan ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce ...

Alcohol, pain killers, meth, nicotine. It's easy to get hooked on them all, but hard to kick the habit. "I didn't want to use, but I didn't know how not to use," Chasity Stacy, a recovering drug ...

Public health leaders, emergency physicians and addiction medicine specialists in Philadelphia are investigating a steady uptick in seizures among people who use drugs. Emergency department visits ...

Roz Pichardo, who runs The Sunshine House, a community outreach and education organization in Kensington, has been working with volunteers and people who frequent her center to make elaborate sets of ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic may become the new frontline warriors in treating and preventing drug and alcohol addiction, a large new study shows. The research, published Wednesday in ...

There’s a renewed push to legalize overdose prevention centers on Beacon Hill, with advocates touting supervised drug use as harm prevention. That depends on how one defines harm. At these centers, ...