San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed today called for the creation of a task force to explore the possibility of creating safe injection sites for drug users. Breed said the task ...

A potential drug-abuse therapy opportunity squandered. State lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance-use disorder bill ...

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," ...

President Trump’s plan to curb “urban disorder” could spell the end of “safe injection sites” that flout federal drug laws. The idea that local governments have to comply with federal law has, ...

City Councilor Ed Flynn is calling for the Council to oppose safe injection sites in Boston that he says would incentivize addicts to shoot up, rather than seek treatment, and worsen the open-air drug ...

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 ...

Without a lot of fanfare, drug counselor Miles Hamlin opened a resource hub in north Minneapolis on Tuesday for drug users to get sterile needles, fentanyl test strips and Narcan. They can shower, do ...

The nonprofit group, Safehouse, was formed last year to house the country’s first so-called safe injection site in Philadelphia. The nonprofit group, Safehouse, was formed last year to house the ...

Tim Lahey, MD, an associate professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H., recently advocated for hospitals to provide addicted patients with areas to safely inject opioids in an ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

President Trump’s plan to curb “urban disorder” could spell the end of “safe injection sites” that flout federal drug laws. The idea that local governments have to comply with federal law has, ...