Emergency departments across the Pittsburgh region are reporting a growing number of patients experiencing severe and ...

Medetomidine has extreme and fast-acting withdrawal symptoms – and the detox centers that help patients are struggling with how best to cope ...

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 ...

Many addiction experts say the supply of street fentanyl in the U.S. is drying up — a win in the fight against overdose deaths that many experts once viewed as unachievable. More good news in the ...

WASHINGTON PARISH, La. — It was a warning the Jefferson Parish coroner first alerted us to two years ago. Now, that same warning is coming from the Washington Parish Coroner after a lethal street drug ...

A powerful veterinary tranquilizer showing up in the street drug supply is putting new pressure on hospitals and treatment centers in Western Pennsylvania, according to local doctors and providers.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia is seeing a slight drop in drug overdose deaths for the first time in ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new harm reduction initiative is helping prevent needless deaths. In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting ...

Inside the laboratory at the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education in Horsham, chemists and toxicologists are surrounded by loud, whirring machines connected to various tubes, wires and ...

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