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 ...

They’re shooting up, and getting down. New York City’s controversial, taxpayer-funded “safe” injection site has reached a depraved new low — with addicts so zonked out they routinely have sex in broad ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and other city officials are headed to Canada Tuesday to tour safe injection sites in Vancouver and Toronto, Action News has learned. "The Mayor ...

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 ...

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.

(*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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...