Supply shock' resulting from a crackdown on China's distribution of fentanyl and chemicals needed to make it means less of the deadly synthetic opioid on the streets, a new report suggests.

As the opioid crisis ravages the nation, emergency department physicians in Philadelphia are trying to use data and new interventions to change the way opioids are being prescribed, according to a ...

Pennsylvania’s new law requires EMS to report overdoses to a statewide system, expanding data to improve the state’s opioid ...

Philadelphia will begin monitoring physicians’ prescribing patterns to identify and intervene with those who overprescribe opioids, reports WHYY, Philadelphia’s public media organization. The new ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia's district attorney says he has filed a lawsuit against 10 different pharmaceutical companies, claiming the companies have helped fuel the city's opioid crisis ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Researchers at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine say a little-known compound could mark a ...

A growing number of people are turning to medical marijuana for pain control, and doctors say cannabis is generally safer than opioids and can be just as effective. Rothman Orthopedics, headquartered ...

In interviews with The Daily Pennsylvanian, physicians and researchers at Penn Medicine highlighted their ongoing efforts to ...

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Experts say opioid abuse has become the worst drug crisis in American history. Governor Tom Wolf was in Philadelphia on Tuesday to talk about what's being done to combat the ...

The move represents a victory for a range of groups, including advocates who argue public defenders play a vital role in ...

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, under a new deal that was formally approved by ...