The Authors of a new study in CMAJ report fewer publicly-discarded syringes and less public injection drug use in one Vancouver area one-year after the city opened North America 's first medically ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area mother and her son are the poster people on a new mobile billboard campaign taking aim at President Joe Biden - calling on him to say "no" to safe injection sites -- ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The lights were on, the mic was ready and the stage was set Thursday night for a community screening of ABC7 News' documentary "Injecting Hope." The film, by ABC7 News reporter ...

Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have authorized San Francisco to open safe-injection sites under a three-year pilot program designed to reduce drug overdoses and the spread of ...

Has the time finally arrived to challenge prevailing federal law in an effort to save addicts’ lives? Among the priorities of a major Massachusetts physicians group this legislative session includes ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin. After years of shooting up on streets and rooftops, he was in one of ...

A potential drug-abuse therapy opportunity squandered. State lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance-use disorder bill ...

Anyone laboring under the misimpression that California is a progressive utopia should contemplate the state’s stupefying debate over safe drug injection sites. In the face of an overblown reputation ...

Oakland and San Francisco soon could become two of the first cities in the country to pursue an audacious strategy to control drug overdoses — safe injection sites where users can shoot up in a ...

A programme of medically supervised injecting centres should be piloted in the UK, as part of an integrated public health strategy, say the authors of an article in this week's BMJ. Injecting centres ...

MONTREAL (AP) - Canada is attacking its expanding opioid crisis with an unusual measure: It's giving addicts a safe place to shoot up. The government already has allowed seven "safe injection sites" ...