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 ...

South Riverdale's security footage showed six different drug dealers outside the site seconds before her fatal shooting ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The discussion over safe injection sites continues across the city after Safehouse intended to open a facility at Constitution Health Plaza in South Philly. The group has since ...

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," ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — Safe drug injection sites are “crack houses with a different name, for different addictive drugs,” said Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Deputy District ...

BOSTON – Doctors, legislators and medical students spoke during a recent Statehouse hearing in support of implementing so-called “safe injection sites” - facilities where trained medical personnel ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In San Francisco, a group of local nonprofit workers went rogue on Overdose Awareness Day by opening a pop-up safe injection site. "We can just go and be safe and the public's ...

José Benitez believes so strongly that his public-health nonprofit has an effective approach to helping people who use drugs that his organization has taken the U.S. Justice Department to court. He is ...

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 ...

If you’ve never heard of “safe injection sites” — public facilities for drug users to consume heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine under the supervision of medical staff — you probably will soon. In ...

"We don't for a minute think that this is the sole answer to the opioid crisis." A Philadelphia nonprofit's plan to open a safe-injection site, where drug users can inject under medical supervision, ...

In San Francisco in 2020, the number of opioid overdose deaths, 697, was more than twice as high as the city's COVID-19 deaths, 257. Yet California lawmakers, so quick to lock down the economy, issue ...