| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. How Philly plans to combat the nation’s worst big-city opioid crisis in 2020
USA. How Philly plans to combat the nation’s worst big-city opioid crisis in 2020
Philadelphia is home to the worst urban opioid crisis in America. More than 3,000 people have died of drug overdoses here in the last three years, and the city health department estimates that tens of thousands of Philadelphians are addicted to opioids.
As the epidemic has worsened, city officials, hospitals, and outreach workers have scrambled to address a complicated public health crisis with few easy answers. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA, 21.02.2020)
https://www.inquirer.com/health/opioid-addiction/whats-next-2020-opioid-crisis-overdoses-philadelphia-kensington-20200121.html