Friday marked the final day of a mock safe-injection site in Boston designed to familiarize the public with what a potential facility might look like. "We want to demystify safe-injection sites and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Three years after the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law authorizing a pilot program for harm reduction centers, construction has now finished at the state’s first ...

Governor Peter Shumlin has said his state is at the center of “a full-blown heroin crisis” that is plaguing the whole country. Heroin use in Vermont has risen dramatically in the past 12 years. This ...

Seattle is moving ahead with plans to open at least one safe injection site where drug users can use heroin and other drugs with medically trained staff on hand and hopefully help seek treatment.

BOSTON (SHNS) – Lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance use disorder bill they filed Tuesday after months of private ...