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This spring, the School District of Philadelphia hosted a Youth Vaping Prevention Town Hall to try and curb vaping (smoking e-cigarettes) among youth—especially since vaping paraphernalia may contain ...

The ECHO explores the murky world of "taxing" where criminals relieve dealers of their cash and drugs in brutal robberies ...

A woman has been arrested after she took a sword to a Unite the Kingdom protest in central London. Dressed in a white, hooded ...

A woman recently posted photos of her brother in a local Facebook group, saying he hung out in Kensington — where there's a vast open-air drug market — and that she hadn't heard from him in three ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A new Philadelphia law that restricts where and when mobile addiction service ...

Long Bright River takes a long, hard look at the opioid crisis in the US and the communities it destroys. Investigating the deaths of a string of women on the streets while hunting for her own sister, ...

Over the last year in Kensington, at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis, elected officials cut funding for a syringe exchange, urged a landlord to stop renting space to a harm-reduction ...

Kensington residents said people in the encampments on Kensington Avenue had spread out to the neighborhood’s side streets after officials swept the area on May 8, 2024. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In late 2016, Steven Klein realized that he’d lost control over his drinking and stimulant use. He became sober ...

As trenches run deep in the battle against opioid addiction in Kensington, Philadelphia officials seek to bridge the access chasm to critical addiction services. The Kensington Caucus, a dedicated ...