José Benitez believes so strongly that his public-health nonprofit has an effective approach to helping people who use drugs that his organization has taken the U.S. Justice Department to court. He is ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — Safe drug injection sites are “crack houses with a different name, for different addictive drugs,” said Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Deputy District ...

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," ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The country is facing a drug overdose crisis, and those impacts are felt in the Pacific Northwest as well. Recovery advocates across the country have long-pushed for an intervention ...

San Francisco lawmakers unveiled plans on Tuesday to "fast track" the opening of supervised injection centers, where individuals can openly use illegal drugs under the care of trained professionals.

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 ...

For years, the idea of establishing supervised drug injection sites has been a long-standing goal for some progressive California leaders looking to address the burgeoning overdose crisis. Efforts to ...

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 ...

For months, the city of San Francisco has been pushing to open so-called supervised injection sites as the controversial Tenderloin Linkage Center closed. However, operators of the proposed new sites ...

SAVING LIVES Wiener and supporters of the bill say supervised injection sites will not solve the overdose crisis. Rather, the goal is to prevent deaths. (Credits: Flickr - Emily Rawlings) A handful of ...

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 ...