In a 45-page answer to a federal lawsuit, the Philadelphia nonprofit Safehouse vigorously defends its right under existing federal law to provide a safe place for opioid use to prevent overdose deaths.
The Trump administration has declared that opioid abuse is a national crisis, but its treatment of a public health crisis as a criminal matter will not end it.
In Philadelphia, a city where an estimated 1,200 people died from opioid overdoses in 2017, a nonprofit aims to establish a safe injection site to reduce overdose deaths. The US Attorney’s office, however, has sued the nonprofit in an effort to keep the site from opening.
A former Pennsylvania governor backs controversial injection site to work around federal limitations on certain harm reduction strategies.
Safe injection sites aren’t exactly legal in the U.S., but a small nonprofit is serving its community anyway. Will cities embrace a controversial program to support drug users?
New approach in New Hampshire finds success while other nonprofits see uphill battle.
Approaches to addressing heroin addiction and abuse of other drugs are changing relatively quickly, but is this an idea whose time has yet to come?
