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All safe injection sites do is keep a user alive one more day, in the hopes they stay breathing long enough to make the decision to stop using. That's it. ... Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco ...
Supervised injection site. Supervised injection sites (SIS) [1][2][3] or drug consumption rooms (DCRs) are a health and social response to drug-related problems. They are fixed or mobile spaces where people who use drugs are provided with sterile drug use equipment and can use illicit drugs under the supervision of trained staff.
California cities may soon be able to establish safe drug consumption sites under a bill that is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk after clearing the state Senate Monday. Senate Bill 57 lets ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has vetoed a bill that would have allowed for a safe injection site pilot program in the state, citing a lack of leadership in its implementation. In a memo issued ...
A needle and syringe programme (NSP), also known as needle exchange program (NEP), is a social service that allows injecting drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It is based on the philosophy of harm reduction that attempts to reduce the risk factors for blood-borne ...
Synthetic opioids, most notably fentanyl and drugs laced with it have seen increasing usage in the American city of San Francisco, California since 2019. [1] In 2023, 810 people died from accidental drug overdoses, a majority containing fentanyl, in San Francisco, [2] with overdoses per 100,000 people being more than double the national average. [3]
The specific problem is ... new efforts to create safe injection sites for people struggling with opioid addiction. ... HIV rate in those individuals in San Francisco ...
Sep. 28—BOSTON — A rise of fatal opioid overdoses has revived a push on Beacon Hill for state-sanctioned sites where addicts can shoot drugs under the supervision of health care workers.