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 ...

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 ...

As recently as his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden decried the wave of fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S., decrying the fact that, as he said, "fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 ...

City Council voted to override Mayor Jim Kenney's veto of a bill that prohibits supervised injection sites from opening in most Philadelphia neighborhoods. City Council pushed the bill into law with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to Inject Semaglutide This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Semaglutide, the active ...

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, ...

(*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 ...

Editors’ Note: Knowledgeable Brooklynites with insights into their own drug problems will sometimes find themselves drawn to a spot near the 125th Street subway and Metro North stations, far north of ...