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Drug overdose deaths dropped 40% last year in the Pittsburgh area. Why can’t Philadelphia do the same?

The city that produced “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” is a lot different from the City of Brotherly Love. But Pennsylvania’s biggest cities share ambitious efforts to save people in addiction.

Billy Golya, 33, a resident of a recovery home on the south side of Pittsburgh, talks during an interview in late November. Overdose numbers dropped by 40 percent in a year in Allegheny County.
Billy Golya, 33, a resident of a recovery home on the south side of Pittsburgh, talks during an interview in late November. Overdose numbers dropped by 40 percent in a year in Allegheny County.Read moreJOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer