Pennsylvania lawmakers are set to pass a new ban on supervised drug consumption, effectively ending a Philadelphia nonprofit’s long-running effort to offer a sanctioned substance-use site meant to ...

A federal judge this week dealt a major and likely decisive blow to Safehouse, a Philadelphia nonprofit seeking to open a facility for supervised drug consumption. In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S.

The Philadelphia City Council voted to override the mayor's veto of a bill that prohibits supervised injection sites across most of the city. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, on Wednesday ...

Governor Maura Healey’s DPH now supports the idea of creating sites where people can take illegal drugs under medical supervision. While no panacea, they’re worth trying as a way to reduce overdose ...

The program, originally slated to start June 22, would let judges in Bronx, Kings, New York and Queens family courts ask parents to “voluntarily” submit to supervised, on-site urine tests during ...

Supervised consumption sites (SCSs), which offer drug users a place to get high under the observation of staff, have become a popular proposed solution to the North American overdose epidemic. But a ...

All safe consumption sites should receive government funding for supervised inhalation. This way, the growing number of people who inhale substances will be closer to the help they need in case of ...

With the looming closure of Ottawa’s two remaining supervised consumption sites, some people who use drugs and want help ingesting them safely are heading across the river to Quebec.

In what he said was his first opportunity to apply a newly enacted section of guidelines from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block granted a defendant's motion to ...