Cocaine

Racial disparities in Allegheny County’s fatal drug overdose rates got worse last year. Now Black residents are more than twice as likely as whites to die. Data suggests the death rate for both races is being driven–at least in part–by cocaine laced with fentanyl, a strong and deadly opioid.

A second man has been indicted in relation to the rash of drug overdoses that occurred earlier this week in the Pittsburgh area.There was a total of eight…

In 2017, 5,614 people in Pennsylvania died from a drug overdose. County coroner and medical examiner reports show that fentanyl, a synethic opioid, was…

U.S. customs officials say drug dogs have sniffed out Philadelphia's largest seizure of cocaine in more than two decades inside a shipping…

Methamphetamine and cocaine use are on the rise in Pennsylvania while prescription drug and heroin deaths are leveling off in some areas, data that…

Public health workers at Thursday’s Drug User Health conference at Allegheny General Hospital advocated for several controversial strategies for helping…

Pittsburgh played host to one of the largest cocaine rings in Western Pennsylvania history, according to U.S. Attorney Scott Brady, who served 39…

There's evidence to suggest that cocaine is more addictive for adolescents than adults. Scientists believe that at least part of this has to do with…