Marianne Jauncey, medical director at a supervised opioid injection center in Sydney, Australia, lays out syringes and other equipment in this April 12, 2016 file photo. Supervised injection sites — ...

A proposal to create a supervised injection site in Philadelphia has drawn criticism from the local archbishop and others who say resources to fight addiction should focus on full and authentic ...

Top Philadelphia officials are advocating that the city become the first in the U.S. to open a supervised injection site, where people suffering from heroin or opioid addiction could use the drugs ...

National Correspondent; Anchor, "CBS Weekend News" Jericka Duncan is a national correspondent and anchor of the "CBS Weekend News." She's based in New York City. PHILADELPHIA--In just six years, the ...

Recently I was moderating a debate between Seattle political candidates when the loaded subject of government-run, heroin-injection sites came up. Basically everyone in Seattle politics supports what ...

EDITOR"S NOTE: Operators of the nonprofit Safehouse spoke Wednesday about their plans, defending South Philadelphia as the first location. That story is FOUND HERE. A federal judge in Philadelphia ...

Plans to open what would have been the first supervised injection site in the United States at a plaza in South Philadelphia have been canceled, one day after the facility was publicly announced.

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 ...

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 ...

Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites. (Elana Gordon/WHYY) When Darlene La Torre wakes up in the morning, there’s a good chance her husband of five ...

Only two government-sanctioned “safe-injection sites” operate in the U.S., one in East Harlem, the other in Washington Heights. Their impact—on both those who use their facilities to inject hard drugs ...