While partly off the radar for many, the opioid crisis is still unfolding and continuing every day. There are concerns the battle is not being won because one drug or substance just replaces another, ...

Gloria Cartagena Hart vividly remembers the scenes and sounds of her Kensington block just three years ago: The streets filled with trash. The sidewalks lined with dozens of people openly using drugs.

Philadelphia lawmakers voted Thursday to ban mobile outreach groups that provide medical care and support services to people ...

This article appears in the February 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Stepping off at the Allegheny subway station in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, visitors are ...