SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area mother and her son are the poster people on a new mobile billboard campaign taking aim at President Joe Biden - calling on him to say "no" to safe injection sites -- ...

The Authors of a new study in CMAJ report fewer publicly-discarded syringes and less public injection drug use in one Vancouver area one-year after the city opened North America 's first medically ...

Has the time finally arrived to challenge prevailing federal law in an effort to save addicts’ lives? Among the priorities of a major Massachusetts physicians group this legislative session includes ...

Bobby Tolbert is a slender, soft-spoken man with a wide smile and an understated elegance. He remembers when he began shooting heroin as a teenager in the 1960s. "When I was coming up," he shakes his ...

The California State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow San Francisco to open safe injection sites under a three year pilot program. The bill, authored by Assemblymember Susan Talamantes ...

As San Francisco develops plans for authorized safe injection sites for drug users, a study of an underground site already in operation released today suggests that there are potential tradeoffs in ...

A programme of medically supervised injecting centres should be piloted in the UK, as part of an integrated public health strategy, say the authors of an article in this week's BMJ. Injecting centres ...

Oakland and San Francisco soon could become two of the first cities in the country to pursue an audacious strategy to control drug overdoses — safe injection sites where users can shoot up in a ...

Apr. 6—Has the time finally arrived to challenge prevailing federal law in an effort to save addicts' lives? Among the priorities of a major Massachusetts physicians group this legislative session ...