(Lackawanna)...The website is called "Heroin Hits Home." It's meant to be a resource for loved ones of people battling a heroin addiction. The hope is that if the information is easy to find, more families will use the resources that are available...(WNEP)

(Northumberland) Mount Carmel Township police used anti-overdose medication to treat a 23-year-old man suffering an alleged heroin overdose early Thursday along a township roadway, according to Police Chief Brian Hollenbush...(Daily Item)

(Allegheny) Fed up with the rising number of opiate overdoses in Western Pennsylvania, an Allegheny County judge is making convicted drug dealers buy lifesaving naloxone kits for the communities where they've sold drugs...(TribLive)

(Statewide) The state boards that oversee licensing and discipline for doctors and pharmacists agreed Tuesday to adopt new guidelines for distributing and prescribing opioids...(Post Gazette)

(Crawford) The Crawford County Task Force on Heroin and Opiate Prevention and Education (HOPE), in collaboration with Meadville Medical Center, announces two new initiatives to educate the community about the current opioid epidemic and to support those families seeking information on treatment options that are available...(Meadville Tribune)

(Lehigh)...That's about to change in the Lehigh Valley, Gov. Tom Wolf said Monday as he announced the launch of 20 programs dubbed Centers of Excellence around the state, including Treatment Trends, an Allentown nonprofit...(Morning Call)

(Allegheny)...So Dr. Burke decided to launch a pilot program - distributing $140,000 over six different projects - to fund researchers asking new questions and answering them with creative, and cost-effective, means...(Post-Gazette)

(Lackawanna)...On Sunday, Mr. Henehan and his wife, Stacy Schmidt-Henehan, of Scranton publicly launched the Forever Sammi Foundation at an addiction awareness rally at Lackawanna County Courthouse Square...(Times Tribune)

(Statewide)...The state has taken steps to address the crisis. Naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, is broadly available, even without a prescription. Later this summer, the state expects to unveil an expanded drug prescription monitoring database to help contain the opioid abuse epidemic...(Standard Speaker)

(Blair)...The event, sponsored by the Blair County Drug and Alcohol Program, taught people how to use Narcan, a nasal spray which reverses the effects of a heroin overdose...(WJAC)

(Dauphin) Pennsylvania Capitol Police Superintendent Joe Jacob today announced an officer from the 3^rd Platoon was able to successfully administer the important life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug..(PR Newswire)

(Bucks)...He was the second person to die in the house last year after a drug overdose, and the third fatal overdose there in two years, according to Bristol Township police...(Bucks County Courier Times)

(New York) In the last two years, the director of an Islamic funeral home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, buried six young men. Heart attacks, some neighbors said, but the whispers and witnesses said something else: heroin. The families of the men would not discuss the causes of death...(New York Times)

(Maine) Three TV commercials show a mother finding an unresponsive son, a girl slumped over at a party and a teammate passing a painkiller to an injured friend...(Press Herald)

(Florida)...A new state law allows pharmacists to dispense the medicine in the form of nasal spray or injection. Some pharmacies say they've either begun providing naloxone, or are making plans to do so...(Sun Sentinel)

(National)...But as the demand for naloxone has risen -- overdose deaths now total 130 every day, or roughly the capacity of a Boeing 737 -- the drug's price has soared...(Los Angeles Times)

(North Carolina) North Carolina's Republican lawmakers have legalized needle and syringe exchange programs across the state to combat rising infection and incarceration rates from a heroin epidemic law enforcement officials say is reaching critical levels...(WRAL)

(Florida) The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is warning about the dangers of synthetic-laced heroin following a recent rash of overdoses...(Patch)

(Canada)...To understand more about the role naloxone plays in aiding the opioid crisis, VICE spoke to a woman in her mid-20s who, less than a year ago, had to be revived by a naloxone injection given by a friend. She has since gotten clean by way of suboxone and has been off of heroin for four months...(Vice)