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WAVERLY TWP. — Addiction impacts all kinds of people, but support is available, participants said at a drug abuse panel Thursday night at the Waverly Community House.

The Shapiro Administration is announcing the success of the PA Overdose Prevention Program distributions in its first 30 days.

The overdose prevention program has fulfilled 475 orders of Narcan and drug test strips across Pennsylvania.

(The Center Square) — County governments will spend the majority of the $1.08 billion in Pennsylvania’s opioid trust. How that spending gets tracked and accounted for is likewise dispersed.

(The Center Square ) — Working in the addiction recovery field, experts warned Pennsylvania lawmakers that burdensome rules and college degree requirements make it harder to help vulnerable people.

(The Center Square ) — Working in the addiction recovery field, experts warned Pennsylvania lawmakers that burdensome rules and college degree requirements make it harder to help vulnerable people.

Substance use disorder treatment providers in Centre County say they’re struggling to keep staff, even as the level of need continues to increase. Pennsylvania’s Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs hosted a roundtable discussion Wednesday in State College as part of a statewide tour.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – On Wednesday, Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Secretary Dr. Latika Davis-Jones continued the agency’s statewide stakeholder engagement tour in Centre County to hear

(The Center Square) – Successful recovery from drug addiction goes beyond overdose reversal drugs and rehab, advocates say, amid a statewide push to prioritize social and community support for former

SCRANTON — A brief exchange with a stranger Sunday proved powerful for Michael Alexander.