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Opioid Addiction

The Purdue Pharma offices are seen on May 8, 2007, in Stamford, Conn.

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

The Sackler family agreed to give up ownership of the company that manufactures the powerful opioid. A previous deal was rejected by the Supreme Court.

A Kensington Hospital wound care outreach van welcomes patients in 2023. The authors write that deploying mobile treatment units to reach people where they are is one of the ways to treat the wave of medetomidine or "rhino tranq" that is involved in one in five fentanyl-related deaths in Philadelphia.

Opinion

Hospitals must develop new protocols as overdose crisis enters dangerous new phase

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker places a new block on the scale model of the Riverview Wellness Village Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 during the unveiling of Philadelphia’s new city-operated drug treatment facility. At left is Managing Director Adam Thiel and Councilmember Michael Driscoll is at right.

Philadelphia Politics

Philly’s new drug rehabilitation center will open this month as part of Mayor Parker’s Kensington plan

Sanitation workers clean up trash during the relocation of people with addiction who had been living in a street encampment on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia in May 2024. Harm reduction advocates say that they feel City Hall has attempted on several occasions this year to curtail their work with people in addiction, including during May's encampment clearing.

The Opioid Crisis

In City Hall’s actions in Kensington, harm-reduction workers see efforts to curtail their work

Joe Henery, 77, who lives in Washington, D.C., used heroin for 30 years before getting clean.

The Opioid Crisis

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

Hospitals must develop new protocols as overdose crisis enters dangerous new phase

Philly’s new drug rehabilitation center will open this month as part of Mayor Parker’s Kensington plan

In City Hall’s actions in Kensington, harm-reduction workers see efforts to curtail their work

How drug overdose deaths have plagued one generation of Black men across the U.S. for decades