(Statewide) Initial numbers from a handful of Pennsylvania counties suggest that drug overdoses in 2015 will eclipse those in 2014, the state's top drug official said at a news conference today...(Post Gazette)

(Delaware) Police outside Philadelphia released video Tuesday showing a man overdosing on heroin on a crowded transit bus and being revived by police officers carrying a lifesaving drug...(CBS News)

(York) With 62 overdose deaths from heroin in 2014, there was no denying it: York County has a heroin problem...(York Daily Record)

(Centre) A man accused of dumping a woman's body along Plainfield Road on Valentine's Day told police he found her dead a few hours earlier in a bathroom in his Patton Township home...(Centre Daily Times)

(Statewide) As Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf heads back to the state from a weekend gathering of governors, he's taking with him a new tactic for efforts to combat a nationwide epidemic of heroin overdoses...(Morning Call)

(York) Officers with Spring Garden Township Police save the lives of two heroin overdose victims over the weekend...A store customer was administering CPR to the man inside the store when police arrived on the scene...(Fox43)

(Washington) Dozens of concerned residents marched through the streets of Washington Saturday night to continue their fight against the area's heroin epidemic...(WPXI)

(Greene)...Since their deaths, Lynn, who lives in Morris Township, Greene County, has been working with the Waynesburg nonprofit rehabilitation program Steps Inside to establish a sober-living facility close to home...(Observer Reporter)

(New Jersey) In what's believed to be the first program of its kind in New Jersey, Howell police who arrest a drug addict or respond to an overdose will now be joined by a drug treatment counselor to get continuing help to the addict as soon as possible...(NJ Advance Media)

(New York)...In a bid to attack the drug plight at its source - identifying the dealers and suppliers who peddle heroin, cocaine and pills around the borough and putting them behind bars - officials unveiled the Overdose Response Initiative, a law enforcement program designed to closely investigate overdose deaths...(SILive)

(Oregon) Drug company executives should be prosecuted for improper actions that contribute to the growth of opioid addiction, an Oregon assistant attorney general told a Senate committee Tuesday...(Statesman Journal)

(National) Most of the media attention in the current nationwide heroin epidemic has focused on the uptick in overdose deaths among suburban, white, middle-class users - many of whom turned to the drug after experimenting with prescription painkillers...(PBS Frontline)

(Iowa)...Kim Brown, of Davenport, lost her son Andy Lamp to a heroin overdose in 2011, and she now advocates for greater access to Naloxone, a common overdose reversal drug, as well as a "Good Samaritan" law, which is intended to protect those who report an overdose from arrest or prosecution...(IAPR)

(Hawaii)...Mooney said many overdose deaths...could be prevented by drugs like naloxone, known as an opioid antagonist because it can temporarily reverse an overdose...(Island Packet)

(National) The National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National League of Cities (NLC) today announced the creation of a joint national task force to address our nation's opioid and heroin abuse crisis...(NACo)

(New York) The mayor of Ithaca wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police...(Observer Reporter)

(National) Prescription opioids have made headlines because of skyrocketing rates of overdose deaths, but a new report shows that fatalities from another group of medications - sedatives called benzodiazepines - are also increasing...(Washington Post)

(National) Public health directors from around the nation demanded the FDA label prescription painkillers and sedatives with its strongest warning in a petition delivered to the federal agency Monday...(USA Today)

(National) Prescription medications are part of millions of Americans' daily existence...While medications can be helpful and even life-saving, some are addictive and have a high abuse potential...(NewsOK)

(National) Alarmed at an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, the National Governors Association decided over the weekend to devise treatment protocols to reduce the use of opioid painkillers...(New York Times)

(North Carolina)...Those drugs are fueling a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths that has been worsened by the doctors who overprescribe addictive painkillers...(Charlotte Observer)

(New Jersey) The opioid crisis continues in Camden, with at least 59 overdoses so far this year, including one fatality, the Camden County Police Department said Thursday...(Philly Voice)

(National) According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), deaths caused by drug overdose have hit an all-time high in the United States, jumping 7 percent in just one year and killing over 40,000 Americans in 2014...(Arizona Daily Star)