The United States’ opioid problem has steadily been getting worse. In 2022, more than 110,000 people died of drug overdoses, "two-thirds of whom succumbed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl," ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A bill allowing drug users to inject themselves in the presence of trained staff is headed to Governor Newsom's desk. It's a controversial bill that would legalize a pilot ...

With a bill that would allow San Francisco to pilot safe injection sites awaiting the governor’s signature, advocates and critics alike this week are being offered a glimpse of what a controlled space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...