An amendment to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that would have barred the dispersal of federal funds from those departments to any city that opened a safe injection site for drug users ...
Advocates of so-called safe-injection sites are seizing on a new study that finds crime has apparently not increased in East Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods featuring overdose-prevention ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston City Councilors were divided on Wednesday over the hotly debated safe injection sites. One councilor introduced a ...
BOSTON — Two days before Christmas in 2016, Dr. James Baker celebrated the holiday with his 23-year-old son, Max. That day, Baker, a physician, and Max, who was in recovery from heroin addiction, ...
Questions have swirled at the Legislature this week on what the next steps are for the government following the closure of ...
Harm reduction is conducted at the intersection of public health and human reality, an uncomfortable location for many people ...
La Plata County Public Health Department’s Harm Reduction program is a response to the rise in opioid-related overdoses both nationally and within La Plata County. Overdose deaths have more than ...