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 ...

A recent study about what happened when an injection site in Red Deer, Alberta, shut down has opened a highly contentious new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Overdose-related calls to Island EMS have gone up, deaths have increased and the drug supply is 'ever so changing,' says Tessa ...

Advocates of supervised drug injection sites say they're encouraged but hoping for more action from Ottawa Public Health after the agency issued a statement saying it still has no plans to open one in ...

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 ...

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 ...