[1] The objective of this department is to manage and distribute state and federal funds used to oversee alcohol and drug prevention, intervention and treatment services.

The department of drug and alcohol programs has five main functions: - Oversee the implementation and delivery of evidence-based programs, services, guidelines, and policies throughout the commonwealth for communities, families, and treatment facilities, including identified priority populations like veterans, pregnant women, and women with children.

[3] This kind of state problem requires immediate attention since the heroin epidemic does not only affect the users themselves but even babies who are being conceived by heroin-addicted mothers.

[4] To resolve this problem, the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, under the supervision of Governor Tom Wolf, for emergency responders to provide naloxone to victims of opioid or heroin overdose.

[5] Naloxone is a type of medication which targets the reversal of opioid/heroin overdose of which the effects easily takes place and regulates a person’s system back to its normal condition.