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14 wrz 2023 · At the sites, users can inject or ingest their own drugs — such as heroin or fentanyl — under the eye of staffers trained to use oxygen or naloxone, the overdose reversal medication.
14 sty 2021 · A federal appeals court ruled the effort by nonprofit Safehouse to open a "supervised injection site" to prevent overdose deaths is laudable but illegal under the so-called federal crack...
12 paź 2023 · Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users on the street could do more harm than good. A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury...
14 wrz 2023 · Philadelphia was once poised to open the nation’s first supervised injection or safe consumption site. Instead, it’s about to become the first major city to enact a near-total ban on such sites. Philadelphia City Council passed legislation Thursday that will ban what are sometimes called overdose prevention centers in nearly all ...
5 gru 2023 · Philadelphia nonprofit Safehouse and the U.S. Department of Justice returned to court Monday after more than a year and a half of failed settlement negotiations regarding the legality of supervised consumption sites, also called overdose prevention centers.
12 paź 2023 · Safe injection sites have been a particularly controversial approach to harm reduction not just in Philadelphia but across most of the U.S. Only a few officially sanctioned safe injection...
15 wrz 2023 · City Council on Thursday passed legislation that would ban safe injection sites in some districts and recommended a blanket ban citywide.
