A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury related to xylazine use in Philadelphia in May 2023. Treatment vans are allowed in the city, but not supervised injection sites. Matt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish safe injection sites and more accessible mental and physical health services in the state. This harm reduction approach looks to ...

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 ...