The Center for Addiction and Recovery Education (CARE) received a $1.2 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to educate and train the state’s first responders in the fight against...
Maria Quinones-Sanchez, a Philadelphia councilmember, spoke on local issues surrounding the opioid crisis to a room of students and St. Joe’s community members in the North Lounge of the Campion...
PA Senate candidates address ongoing opioid crisis
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), opioid-related emergency-department visits in Pennsylvania increased...
Safe injection sites are a proven intervention
Our country is in the midst of an opioid crisis, and if Philadelphia is not at the epicenter of this crisis, it is close.
Pennsylvania has the fourth-highest...
The link between opioids and terrorism
It’s everywhere. It’s in our homes, threatening our families; it’s in our schools, harming youth and impeding development; it’s in our streets, fueling the...
St. Joe’s is taking steps to address the national opioid addiction crisis with an online prescription drug abuse prevention course meant to be completed by students.
Katie Bean, assistant director of...
