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 ...
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 ...
Safe-injection site program extension wins General Assembly approval, advocates hope to open in 2024
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island is preparing to open one of the only safe injection sites in the country, embracing a highly controversial program designed to cut down on the state’s deadly ...
This article is part two of Crisis in New York, a series examining the effects public policies have on the city’s already strained housing, law enforcement and drug services. Read part one. NEW YORK ...
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 ...
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