Items tagged with drug consumption rooms and US drug policy
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| America has lost the War on Drugs. Here’s what needs to happen next [22.02.2023] | For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. Before long, ... |
| ‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential [31.12.2021] | Fentanyl testing strips as well as the opioid-reversal drug naloxone (commonly known as Narcan) are becoming the sine qua non of the party scene, dis ... |
| D.A. Chesa Boudin joins critics of Breed’s Tenderloin crackdown to protest plan [20.12.2021] | District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined other elected officials and activists to criticize Mayor London Breed’s plan to flood San Francisco’s Tenderloi ... |
| S.F. takes big step toward opening a supervised drug use site [14.12.2021] | San Francisco could be one step closer to opening a supervised drug use site after the Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of property for tha ... |
| Supervised injection sites for drug users to open in New York City [30.11.2021] | In an attempt to curb a surge in overdose deaths caused by increasingly potent street drugs, New York City will authorize two supervised injection si ... |
| Safehouse takes its battle over a Philly supervised drug injection site to the U.S. Supreme Court [26.08.2021] | Seven months after a federal appellate court delivered a major setback to plans to open the nation’s first supervised injection site in Philadelphia, ... |
| 2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far [15.01.2021] | San Francisco lost a total of 699 people to overdoses last year, a 59% rise from 2019, according to new data released by the Office of the Chief Medi ... |
| Appeals Court overturns ruling that legalized SCS; Safehouse fights on [13.01.2021] | A three-judge panel from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals voted to overturn a Philadelphia District Court’s prior ruling that effectively legalized ... |
| CDC and NIDA will finally study potential of safe consumption sites [07.01.2021] | For the first time ever, Congress has weighed in on the issue of safe consumption sites (SCS). A bill tied to the stimulus package signed into law on ... |
| Scott Wiener tries — again — to allow S.F., Oakland and L.A. to open a safe drug use site [07.12.2020] | State Sen. Scott Wiener is trying — once again — to allow San Francisco to open a safe injection site, where people can use drugs in a safe and super ... |
| Amid spike in opioid overdoses, momentum for reform wavers [31.08.2020] | U.S. states and cities are seeing increases in opioid-related overdose deaths A paper issued by the American Medical Association this summer found th ... |
| Secret US drug injection site shows how supervision could save lives [08.07.2020] | For five years, a secret supervised drug injection site has operated in the US, allowing drug users to inject more than 10,000 times in a sterile, pr ... |
| Safe injection sites: Coronavirus underlines why they make sense [17.03.2020] | As cases of COVID-19 infections and fatalities begin to surge, an aggressive testing campaign is finally getting underway across the nation. American ... |
| Philadelphia nonprofit opening nation's first supervised injection site next week [26.02.2020] | After a two-year battle, the Philadelphia nonprofit Safehouse says next week it will open the first space in the U.S. where people struggling with ad ... |
| Philly’s supervised injection site backers say they won’t delay opening while Justice Dept. appeals [07.01.2020] | The Philadelphia nonprofit hoping to operate the nation’s first supervised injection site it would not let an expected appeal by the Justice Departme ... |
| Judge rules planned supervised injection site does not violate federal drug laws [02.10.2019] | A judge has ruled that a Philadelphia nonprofit group's plan to open the first supervised injection site in the U.S. where people can use illegal opi ... |
| Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it [29.09.2019] | A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, ... |
| Fate of Philly safe consumption site now hinges on judge’s ruling [06.09.2019] | Nearly two years after Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said his office would not stand in the way of a safe consumption site (SCS) to help cut the city ... |
| California bill to create ‘safe injection sites’ in San Francisco clears Assembly [23.05.2019] | A bill that would allow San Francisco city officials to open facilities where people can inject drugs without legal consequences cleared the state As ... |
| Oakland explores possibility of opening safe injection site [13.05.2019] | Oakland officials are exploring building a safe injection site for illicit-drug users in hopes of lowering open-air drug use on city streets. Mayor L ... |
| Trump Justice Department goes after overdose prevention sites as ‘crack houses’ [24.04.2019] | Two major U.S. cities are trying to open facilities to save drug users’ lives, but the Trump administration is trying to stop them, arguing the facil ... |
| Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses [23.02.2019] | Drugs now kill about 70,000 Americans every year—more than car crashes or guns (both 39,000), more than AIDS did at the height of its epidemic (42,00 ... |
| Safe injection site for opioid users faces Trump administration crackdown [06.02.2019] | The Justice Department is suing to stop a Philadelphia group from opening what some public health experts and mayors consider the next front in fight ... |
| ‘An argument that made no sense at all’ [05.10.2018] | Former Gov. Ed Rendell announced that he is incorporating a nonprofit, called Safehouse, that will work to open a safe injection site in Philadelphia ... |
| Refuting science, Jerry Brown vetoes safe injection plan [01.10.2018] | Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed San Francisco to open what could have been the nation’s first supervised ... |
| Cities defiant after Justice Department’s threat on ‘supervised injection sites’ [04.09.2018] | Cities seeking to open sites where illegal drug users are monitored to prevent overdoses responded defiantly to a Justice Department threat to take “ ... |
| Cities planning supervised drug injection sites fear Justice Department reaction [12.07.2018] | In parts of the country hit hard by addiction, some public health officials are considering running sites where people can use heroin and other illeg ... |
| Supervised injection facilities are illegal in the United States [30.04.2018] | Several major cities are trying to open “safe injection sites” for drug abusers — even though they are technically illegal. With recent evidence that ... |
| An opioid crisis foretold [21.04.2018] | Today’s opioid crisis is already the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Opioid overdoses killed more than 45,000 people in the 12 months th ... |
| Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime [25.02.2018] | Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic ha ... |
| Let cities open safe injection sites [24.02.2018] | One of the most consistent patterns in the more than 64,000 deaths attributed to opioid and other drug overdoses in 2016 was that the victims’ last m ... |
| To cut drug deaths, city considers sanctioned places to shoot up [09.02.2018] | In 2016, the opioid epidemic claimed 1,374 lives in New York City. That’s roughly four drug overdose deaths each day. One death every seven hours. Ne ... |
| Philadelphia aims to become first US city to legalize safe injection sites [06.02.2018] | Philadelphia officials are pushing an effort to make the city the first in the U.S. to allow drug users to shoot up at a medically supervised facilit ... |
| A huge step backward on opioids [24.01.2018] | The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic o ... |
| Desperate cities consider 'safe injection' sites for opioid users [10.01.2018] | Philadelphia officials are advocating to become the first in the U.S. city to open a supervised injection site, where people suffering from heroin or ... |
| Supervised injection sites could stop untold opioid-related deaths [01.12.2017] | In addition to the legal issues, the heavy stigma around heroin and other opioids driving the nation's overdose crisis can push individuals into the ... |
| Money on the table for a safe drug consumption site in Seattle [07.11.2017] | Despite the backlash from various King County cities against the idea of establishing safe drug consumption sites, the Seattle City Council is moving ... |
| Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis [29.08.2017] | A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to a recent New York Times analysis. Annual overdose deaths in the US have already ... |
| Secret supervised drug injection facility has been operating at US site for years [08.08.2017] | For nearly three years, in an undisclosed US city, a social service agency has quietly been inviting people to inject illegal drugs at a clandestine ... |
| It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs [25.04.2017] | As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need ... |
| Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites for addicts to inject illegal drugs [27.01.2017] | Officials in Seattle approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but n ... |
| Injecting drugs, under a watchful eye [18.01.2017] | It has been nearly 30 years since the first needle exchange program opened in the United States. America has another epidemic now: overdose deaths fr ... |
| Seattle’s potential solution for heroin epidemic: Places for legal drug use [24.08.2016] | A task force established to combat a heroin epidemic in the Seattle metropolitan area has endorsed a strategy of establishing places where addicts wo ... |
| Street opioids are getting deadlier. Overseeing drug use can reduce deaths [25.04.2016] | As health officials battle increasing mortality associated with heroin and prescription opioids, an even more dangerous group of street drugs has app ... |
| U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed [30.09.2011] | A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to ... |
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