WARNING: This story contains graphic images. Philadelphia's most lawless, drug-infested neighborhood became more distressed and filled with anguish in 2023, a former resident said as he called on ...
This is the third story in a series about the open-air drug market in Kensington. Read the first and second parts. PHILADELPHIA – Opioid overdose kits are common sights in Kensington. They hang from ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Another step in Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker's mission to clean up the drug-riddled Kensington neighborhood will take place Wednesday. Clergy will be out once again, ...
Patient brokering schemes lure vulnerable people in addiction to clinics in exchange for kickbacks and bribes. Insurance ...
Amongst the wasteland of one of America’s most drug-addled neighborhoods, one man has made it his mission to save addicts dying from overdoses. Ryan Sager, 27, has been dubbed the closest thing to a ...
Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood has become widely regarded as ground zero for xylazine — a.k.a. “tranq” — a veterinary drug that’s being added to fentanyl with devastating affects. Disturbing ...
After sharing his first-hand experiences on Philadelphia’s drug-stricken streets, one local business owner and recovering addict has criticized city officials for causing the crisis. "I blame the city ...
A New Kensington man will serve up to 10 years in prison in connection with a methamphetamine laboratory found in his parents’ basement. Sean Christopher Smith, 36, was convicted in October by a ...
A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about what the drugs did to his dad. So why are peers... In 2021, after years of societal neglect and denial ...
"God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here." The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington ...
Last week I described how easy it is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York. And how “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts. Such sites are fought over. Do they ...