In a fortuitous alignment, each of the medical journals with the three largest print circulations (JAMA, American Family Physician, and The New England Journal of Medicine) recently published ...
The Department of Justice is reportedly considering opening safe injection sites despite saying during the Trump administration that they were “utterly incompatible” with how local governments should ...
A recent study about what happened when an injection site in Red Deer, Alberta, shut down has opened a highly contentious new chapter in the ongoing debate over supervised consumption sites. The study ...
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 ...
For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal ...
City Council voted to override Mayor Jim Kenney's veto of a bill that prohibits supervised injection sites from opening in most Philadelphia neighborhoods. City Council pushed the bill into law with a ...
Patients not already receiving buprenorphine can receive the first injection of Sublocade following a single dose of transmucosal buprenorphine and a 1 hour observation period to confirm tolerability.
San Francisco is in the process of allowing local non-profits to open so-called supervised injection sites in the city, a step that local Democratic leaders say would limit overdoses among drug users ...