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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A federal judge has ruled that a nonprofit seeking to open a safe injection site in Philadelphia would not violate a federal drug law known commonly as "crack house statute." ...

According to multiple reports, the City of Worcester could become the first community in Massachusetts to open an overdose prevention center for users of heroin, fentanyl, or other illegal drugs under ...

(*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 ...

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 ...

Colorado is one step closer to becoming the second state in the nation to legalize “supervised drug consumption” sites, also known as safe injection sites or overdose prevention sites, as labeled in ...

Does Seattle’s Mayor Ed Murray know that safe injection sites in Seattle won’t eliminate drug dealing and crime in the city? Mayor Ed Murray answered that question from a KIRO Radio listener by ...

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 ...