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 ...
PROVIDENCE — Legislation to extend by two years a pilot program, not yet launched, to allow supervised consumption sites for people to safely consume illicit substances won final approval in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
After Denver City Council approved an ordinance that would create a "safe injection site" for drug use in the city, many 9NEWS viewers wanted to know exactly how that would work. While the site has ...
Fed up East Harlem residents are begging the Trump administration to do what the their local leaders will not — shut down the controversial safe injection site that’s been a magnet for crime and chaos ...
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 ...
This article is part two of Crisis in New York, a series examining the effects public policies have on the city’s already strained housing, law enforcement and drug services. Read part one. NEW YORK ...
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 ...