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 ...
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.
The first two officially sanctioned safe injection sites to open in the U.S. — both located in New York City — did not lead to an increase in crime in surrounding neighborhoods, and by some measures, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Mayor Eric Adams wants ...
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 ...