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The Trump administration is being urged to shut down two controversial, NYC-government approved "safe injection sites" -- where drug addicts can use illegal drugs like meth, heroin and cocaine ...
Drug-related 311 complaints to the East Harlem safe injection site’s address have soared to 272 in 2024, up 377% from just 57 in 2020, the year before the facility opened, according to an NYPD ...
Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Wednesday rejected the provision of supervised injection sites, facilities where people can inject themselves with illegal drugs under medical supervision, as a ...
Cubicles for drug injection at a supervised injection site in Strasbourg. Supervised injection sites (SIS) [1] [2] [3] or drug consumption rooms (DCRs) are a health and social response to drug-related problems. They are fixed or mobile spaces where people who use drugs are provided with sterile drug use equipment and can use illicit drugs under ...
Ten months after RI became the first state to OK safe consumption sites for illicit drugs, outreach to wary communities is proceeding slowly.
OnPoint NYC is a New York City nonprofit that operates two privately run safe injection sites in East Harlem and Washington Heights. [2] At the sites, drug users use illegal drugs under supervision. [3] Placed at the sites of existing syringe service programs, [4] these were America's first safe injection facilities when they opened in November ...
Insite is a supervised drug injection site in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [1] The DTES had 4,700 chronic drug users in 2000 and has been considered to be the centre of an "injection drug epidemic". The site provides a supervised and health-focused location for injection drug use, primarily ...
WORCESTER – The city's Board of Health has taken the first step toward potentially creating an overdose prevention center, also known as a safe injection site, in Worcester.