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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philadelphia Councilman Mark Squilla introduced a bill that could prevent the nation’s first supervised injection site from opening at the Kensington location secured by project backers. Squilla on ...

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 ...

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 ...

A plan to create a space where people can inject heroin and other drugs under medical supervision does not violate a federal law intended to crack down on drug houses, a federal judge ruled. By ...

In San Francisco in 2020, the number of opioid overdose deaths, 697, was more than twice as high as the city's COVID-19 deaths, 257. Yet California lawmakers, so quick to lock down the economy, issue ...