With daily visits up more than 100 percent and dozens of life-threatening overdoses linked to the centers, officials and ...

A potential drug-abuse therapy opportunity squandered. State lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance-use disorder bill ...

Has the time finally arrived to challenge prevailing federal law in an effort to save addicts’ lives? Among the priorities of a major Massachusetts physicians group this legislative session includes ...

ITHACA, New York -- The mayor of Ithaca wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies ...

The Trump administration is being urged to shut down two controversial city-approved “safe” injection sites — where drug addicts can use illegal drugs like meth, heroin and cocaine under supervision.

Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...

Bobby Tolbert is a slender, soft-spoken man with a wide smile and an understated elegance. He remembers when he began shooting heroin as a teenager in the 1960s. "When I was coming up," he shakes his ...

Boofing describes a method of dissolving drugs in water and then administering the drug into the rectum. Proponents suggest this method can provide a quicker and more intense high. There are many ...