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The Kensington Renewal Initiative (KRI) is a Philadelphia-based advocacy and community development organization founded by film director, Jamie Moffett.KRI was established to create a program model to rehabilitate blighted properties and dilapidated lots and transforming them into owner occupied homes for the purpose of significantly decreasing crime and drug activity in low income, urban ...
The Philadelphia Badlands is a section of North Philadelphia and Lower Northeast Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is known for an abundance of open-air recreational drug markets and drug-related violence. [1] It has amorphous and somewhat disputed boundaries, but is generally agreed to include the 25th police district. [2]
In the United States, there were approximately 109,600 drug-overdose-related deaths in the 12-month period ending January 31, 2023, at a rate of 300 deaths per day. [5] From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdoses, [6] with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths. [7]
For the first time in 2023, law enforcement agencies were required to report known, suspected accidental drug overdoses to a database created in 2018. New law exposes extent of Pa.'s drug overdose ...
BOSTON (Reuters) -McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $650 million to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the consulting firm's work advising opioid manufacturer OxyContin maker ...
Since the 1970s Kensington has been an open-air drug market due to the area's favorable conditions for one including empty factories and buildings where drugs could be stored, sold and used, easy access to the neighborhood for customers via SEPTA trains or I-95, and neglect by Philadelphia government and law enforcement. [4]
Police and Peers to help with drug problem. Tribune. Jeniffer Graham, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. April 13, 2024 at 10:31 PM.
Today, the area most often referred to as Philadelphia's modern-day skid row is in the Kensington neighborhood, along Kensington Avenue near the intersections of Somerset Street and Allegheny Avenue. The area is known for its high rates of open-air recreational drug use, poverty, and homelessness. [46]