A Melbourne council has reignited a years-long debate surrounding Victoria's only safe injecting room, lobbying the state government to relocate the facility. Yarra City Council yesterday voted to ...

New York’s two supervised drug-consumption sites have long suffered from the soft bigotry of low expectations. Proponents say the sites are vital, life-saving tools in the ever-expanding drug crisis.

They're shooting up, and getting down. New York City's controversial, taxpayer-funded "safe" injection site has reached a depraved new low — with addicts so zonked out they routinely have sex in broad ...

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 ...

FILE - Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, OnPoint NYC, in New York, Feb. 18, 2022. The city of Providence, Rhode Island, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2204, has approved the ...

In an undisclosed location in the US, a social services agency has secretly overseen more than 2,500 injections by around 100 people who take drugs—in an effort to fight the overdose crisis. The ...

Drug-affected people have been using the Geelong library in lieu of safe injection room, according to an ex-employee ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The death toll is staggering. More than 1,400 people died of a drug overdose in Philadelphia in 2022. For perspective, 516 died from gun violence. In September, Philadelphia City ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- City council has essentially approved a ban on safe injection sites opening in Philadelphia. "This is a ban on being able to put a center like this one in a community," ...

Residents and business owners in inner-city Melbourne deserve better than waking up every day to drug-addicted people lying in their streets and shopfronts littered with needles. They shouldn’t have ...