Over the past two years, there has been a heated debate about the closure of overdose prevention sites, not just in Alberta cities such as Red Deer, but also in Toronto and Ottawa. Such supervised ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco plans to try to thread a legislative needle to allow the opening of safe injection sites in the city. Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen announced Wednesday ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Have you ever cleaned blood off of an intoxicated loved one’s face? How about vomit? Have you ever had a security system installed because a loved one’s ...

Editors’ Note: Knowledgeable Brooklynites with insights into their own drug problems will sometimes find themselves drawn to a spot near the 125th Street subway and Metro North stations, far north of ...

(*This story was updated at 9:43 a.m. on Friday, April 5, 2024 to correct a quotation from a spokesman for City Manager Eric Batista.) As deaths caused by opioid overdoses continue to rise yearly in ...

FILE - Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, OnPoint NYC, in New York, Feb. 18, 2022. The city of Providence, Rhode Island, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2204, has approved the ...

Behind Sam Rivera’s desk in his office at the Harlem OnPoint supervised injection and harm reduction center is a sign for an early syringe exchange program. “Clean Needles Save Lives: Drug Users Doing ...

NEW YORK — 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 the ...

The success of healthcare marketing campaigns is often measured in prescription starts or website visits. For the collaboration between Toronto-based agency The Garden and the Safe Health Site Timmins ...

Once the national leader in the charge to open a supervised injection site, the nonprofit group is mired in legal battles, with no clear path out. File Photo: Safe injection site supporters in ...

Last week, CTV News published an article with a headline harm-reduction activists across the country pounced on: “Drug overdoses in Toronto up nearly 50 per cent since last January, city data shows.” ...