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 ...

Nearly 200 stakeholders, who convened at Premier healthcare alliance and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s open meeting, developed 22 safe injection practices. Proceedings, background materials ...

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 ...

New York’s two supervised drug-consumption sites have long suffered from the soft bigotry of low expectations. Proponents say the sites are vital, life-saving tools in the ever-expanding drug crisis.

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 ...

(*This story was updated at 9:43 a.m. on Friday, April 5, 2024 to correct a quotation from a spokesman for City Manager Eric Batista.) As deaths caused by opioid overdoses continue to rise yearly in ...

Obviously, the topic of safe injection sites in King County, and elsewhere, is controversial. We should encourage debate and dialogue, but instead, some advocates are trying to silence opponents by ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Governor Brown vetoed legislation that would have allowed San Francisco to open the nation's first supervised drug injection site. Last month, a mock drug injection site had ...

With the proposal for safe injection sites in Denver sitting on the Capitol's doorstep, 9NEWS decided to take a look at other areas that have implemented similar ordinances. The largest city to create ...

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 ...