BOSTON - The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is supporting controversial supervised injection sites for the first time as deadly overdoses reach record levels. A new DPH report says there ...

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 Windsor Overdose Prevention Society's non-profit status filing comes just one day after the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) revealed details about a survey seeking pu ...

Myra Smith walked into the Wilson Library Branch with her mind made up about supervised substance use centers: “It is NOT coming to the Hill. It’s not.” She left with more openness to the concept as a ...

The first supervised injection site in the Bay State could be coming to Worcester after a local board backed opening a facility in the city. The Worcester Board of Health has unanimously voted to OK ...

Londoners can now weigh in on public supervised injection sites for the city's drug users. The Middlesex-London Health Unit launched an online survey today and released the schedule for nine public ...

Governor Maura Healey’s DPH now supports the idea of creating sites where people can take illegal drugs under medical supervision. While no panacea, they’re worth trying as a way to reduce overdose ...

The Colorado legislature is diving anew into the debate over "safe injection sites" — places where a person can consume illicit drugs under the supervision of medical personnel— with opponents saying ...

Mayor London Breed and members of Glide Memorial Methodist Church this week announced plans to open a supervised injection facility demonstration project in the Tenderloin in late August. Dubbed Safer ...

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.

San Francisco would be best served by several supervised injection sites accompanied by social services for people who use drugs, according to a report from a city task force established to study the ...