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During the first weekend of December, nine people died of apparent drug overdoses in and around Kensington, a neighborhood in northern Philadelphia. Opioid overdoses are nearing record levels in ...
She has called for a holistic solution to the epidemic. [7] She opposes a supervised injection site being built in Kensington because it will only end open drug use and not drug use itself. [7] Quiñones-Sánchez has invested more resources in the Philadelphia Police Department to stop the flow of drugs into the city and close open-air drug ...
As of 2021, America's drug epidemic was the deadliest it had ever been, according to federal data. More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period ending April 2021, according to provisional data published November 17, 2021, by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [116]
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]
New estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics projects that more than 112,000 people died from a drug overdose in the 12-month ...
A resident of the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia—a community that has grappled with a thriving open-air drug market and concentrated gun violence—Hinnant said she didn't feel ...
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 ...
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]