WARNING: This story contains graphic images. PHILADELPHIA — Dozens of drug users were passed out along the sidewalks of Kensington Avenue on a gloomy August afternoon. Others stumbled through ...

The closure of a sprawling homeless encampment near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues in May mostly pushed drug users deeper into the surrounding residential streets, with an eruption of activity ...

It can even be lethal. Maggie, a 30-year-drug user, has been living on Kensington's streets for four years. She once blacked out and woke up shoeless after taking a drug without realizing it was ...

with users swaying lifelessly on the streets in a notorious open-air drug market. The viral video shot from a corner of the Kensington neighborhood shows two people standing on the sidewalk ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Kensington has been plagued by an opioid crisis for years. Now, another drug on Philadelphia's streets is making a devastating situation catastrophic. According to medical ...

The Philadelphia police installed barricades along Kensington Avenue after removing people who were camped out there and cleaning the sidewalk. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The street running through the ...

Kensington, northeast of Philadelphia ... none of them interfered with the widespread drug activity openly taking place on the streets. In one instance witnessed by The Post, a police car ...

May 7, 2024 The vow was unequivocal: The city of Philadelphia was finally going to root out the drug trade that has long monopolized the streets of Kensington. Around the neighborhood, where ...

Some people arrested for low-level drug crimes in Kensington now may be eligible for expedited court hearings and immediate treatment referrals. The new Kensington Neighborhood Wellness Court ...

What resulted was a rally against drugs and violence in ... called me back here — to work the streets.” Trent, a former Georgia pastor, said his New Kensington congregation is in the process ...

In addition to felony and misdemeanor drug offenses ... as being from New Kensington. Inside the apartment, police said, they found about nine ounces of cocaine with a street value of $15,790.