The United States’ opioid problem has steadily been getting worse. In 2022, more than 110,000 people died of drug overdoses, "two-thirds of whom succumbed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl," ...

There is no doubt the Adams administration’s decision to open five more “safe injection sites” by 2025 is motivated by a sincere effort to reduce the wave of drug overdoses that claimed the lives of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Three years after the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law authorizing a pilot program for harm reduction centers, construction has now finished at the state’s first ...

Read full article: Daughter of Jacksonville attorney one of the 60 passengers who lost life in American Airlines crash with Army helicopter For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large ...

Only two government-sanctioned “safe-injection sites” operate in the U.S., one in East Harlem, the other in Washington Heights. Their impact—on both those who use their facilities to inject hard drugs ...

Giving people with substance-abuse disorders a place to safely get treatment is a noteworthy cause, but allowing them to hide in a clinic where they can consume drugs without repercussion is something ...

Pennsylvania's state Senate on Monday approved legislation to ban so-called safe injection sites, after Philadelphia became the center of a legal battle over opening safe havens where opioid users ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The lights were on, the mic was ready and the stage was set Thursday night for a community screening of ABC7 News' documentary "Injecting Hope." The film, by ABC7 News reporter ...

NEW THIS MORNING IN OUR STATE OF ADDICTION COVERAGE, SUPERVISED INJECTION SITES WILL NOT BE COMING TO PENNSYLVANIA ANYTIME SOON AFTER THE STATE SENATE APPROVED LEGISLATION BANNING THEM, THE SENATE ...

Could safe injection sites help Philadelphia's overdose crisis? In September, Philadelphia city council voted to ban what are known as safe injection sites, a major blow for advocates who say these ...

Detroit Police have arrested a suspect following an hours-long standoff at a home on Mark Twain Street on the city’s west side, after a shooting that left a teenager hospitalized Saturday afternoon.