(Centre) If you don't think central Pennsylvania, or Centre County in particular, has a drug problem, the headlines should convince you otherwise. In recent years, heroin began to pop up like dandelions after years of being underground in Happy Valley...(Centre Daily Times)

(Philadelphia)...Hundreds of heroin addicts from other states have washed up in Philadelphia, law enforcement officials say, drawn to a city that has become a major distribution hub for inexpensive, high-grade heroin produced by Mexico's Sinaloa cartel...(Los Angeles Times)

(Centre) The growing crises of substance abuse is reaching unprecedented levels across the nation, and Centre County, as rural as it is, is beginning to be ravaged by what Mount Nittany Health is calling "one of the most pressing health issues affecting our community."...(State College)

(Franklin) While heroin addiction and overdoses continue to worry community members and Franklin County officials, recovering drug addicts are also finding themselves with few options locally when seeking help for their addictions...(Public Opinion)

(Maine) Maine's opioid prescribing law, aimed at addressing the state's growing drug epidemic, goes into effect on July 29. The new law sets maximum doses for many patients at 100 morphine milligram equivalents a day...(APhA)

(National) A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country's heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they've found it mixed with or passed off as heroin...(CBS News)

(North Carolina)There is no greater public health crisis in America today than the rising epidemic of heroin and prescription drugs. It threatens old and young, rural America and inner-cities, the poor and the rich, and future generations if we do nothing...(News Observer)

(Ohio) More than 2,200 lives have been saved in Ohio with the help of naloxone bought with the state's $500,000 investment in the overdose reversal drug last year...(Chillicothe Gazette)

(New York) Administered in recent years by first responders, it's credited with saving thousands of lives in a region that continues to grapple with an opioid epidemic..(EMS1)

(Montana) Federal authorities say about 78 Americans die every day from opioid overdose. In Montana, health care officials report that abuse there is worse than the national average. But the casualties of the opioid epidemic are not all drug abusers...(PBS)

(New York) The Overdose Response Initiative, a new program launched five months ago to investigate overdose deaths on Staten Island, sparked the takedown of a drug-dealing network in the borough, said District Attorney Michael E. McMahon...(SILive)

(Massachusetts) Massachusetts police officers will soon have the authority to place into protective custody, without consent, a person who is believed to be in the throes of a drug overdose, an option previously available only when a person became incapacitated due to alcohol...(WBUR)