Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Three years after the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law authorizing a pilot program for harm ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 stakeholders, who convened at Premier healthcare alliance and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s open meeting, developed 22 safe injection practices. Proceedings, background materials ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In San Francisco, a group of local nonprofit workers went rogue on Overdose Awareness Day by opening a pop-up safe injection site. "We can just go and be safe and the public's ...

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 ...

This article was reviewed by Kelly Brown MD, MBA. The thought of injecting a needle into your privates might be enough to make you squirm. But ED injections can be an effective and safe way to treat ...