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The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses.
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A Philadelphia nonprofit group said it will open the nation's first supervised injection site next week to combat overdose deaths after a federal judge…
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In anticipation of a final court ruling that would clear the way for Safehouse — the nation’s first supervised injection site — to open, the City of…
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Safehouse, the Philadelphia nonprofit hoping to open the nation’s first supervised injection site for opioid users, says the law is on its side.In its…
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The city with the highest opioid death rate of any large city in the United States could soon become the location of the nation's first supervised drug…
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In forming a nonprofit last week to oversee a supervised injection site in Philadelphia, public health advocates got closer to what may be the opening of…
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One major question that has loomed over Philadelphia’s support of opening the country’s first supervised injection facility has been who would assume the…
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At an unassuming storefront on a busy Brooklyn street, people sign up to use a bathroom outfitted to try to curb an overdose crisis.Waiting his turn, a…
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Philadelphia wants to become the first U.S. city to allow supervised drug injection sites as a way to combat the opioid epidemic, officials announced…