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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury related to xylazine use in Philadelphia in May 2023. Treatment vans ...

The commonwealth’s authority to buck federal law and legalize drug-injection consumption sites dominated a legislative hearing Monday, as some health-care providers and local officials insisted that ...

Over the past two years, there has been a heated debate about the closure of overdose prevention sites, not just in Alberta cities such as Red Deer, but also in Toronto and Ottawa. Such supervised ...

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 ...

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, ...

Behind Sam Rivera’s desk in his office at the Harlem OnPoint supervised injection and harm reduction center is a sign for an early syringe exchange program. “Clean Needles Save Lives: Drug Users Doing ...

San Francisco Health Director Barbara Garcia has never opposed the idea of safe injection sites for drug users. Her comment at a Board of Supervisors hearing last week raised the possibility that the ...

Last week, CTV News published an article with a headline harm-reduction activists across the country pounced on: “Drug overdoses in Toronto up nearly 50 per cent since last January, city data shows.” ...