OnPoint, the nation's first supervised drug consumption site, vows to continue its approach to harm reduction.

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

2023 was a year of heartbreak for thousands of people who lost loved ones to overdose. It was the deadliest year on record — in the United States, more than 110,000 people died from a drug overdose.

NYC's OnPoint NYC has reported nearly 2000 overdose interventions, but the future of its expansion is uncertain.

"Safe consumption sites," where people can use pre-obtained drugs with medically trained personnel on hand to treat overdoses, garner higher public support when they are called "overdose prevention ...

Marin County is set to receive $800,000 annually for nine years from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies, officials said this week. The county, which has an average of one resident dying from ...

As the opioid overdose crisis continues to harm people across Connecticut, there is an urgent need to take bold action. One of the most promising solutions, supported by decades of evidence, is the ...

Project Weber/RENEW on July 10, 2025. The center provides harm reduction and recovery services and sits next to the Rhode Island Hospital campus in Providence. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This ...

IU researcher Cris Henderson wants overdose prevention education to be as commonplace as CPR and first aid training.

BRAINERD — The Minnesota Department of Health awarded more than 55 overdose prevention grants and contracts to community-based organizations, health systems, tribal nations, counties and other ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Children and drug users filled United Nations Plaza by the Tenderloin on a recent Saturday afternoon, where up until a few weeks ago, the city operated an overdose prevention site.

Public libraries in Illinois now required to store anti-opioid overdose medications after a series of near-deaths - State law ...