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Safehouse Fights On for Philadelphia OPC With New Court Filings

The nonprofit Safehouse is fighting on in a legal struggle which has so far lasted over almost five years, in…

September 17, 2024

Overdose Prevention Centers Are Health Care: Treat Them as Such

Nearly 300 people across the country die of a drug overdose every day. This amounts to more than 107,000 people…

August 28, 2024

A Week to Ramp Up the Pressure for Overdose Prevention Centers

In 2022, over 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States—more than from firearms and vehicles combined. These…

August 26, 2024

Providence, RI, Overdose Prevention Center Set to Open This Fall

Claire Macon in Providence, Rhode Island, has one of the rarest job titles in the United States: overdose prevention center…

August 21, 2024

San Francisco Overdose Deaths Falling in Early 2024: Will It Last?

San Francisco recorded slowly decreasing overdose deaths over the first three months of 2024, according to new data. But how…

April 16, 2024

Federal Court Grants DOJ Request to Dismiss Safehouse SCS Challenge

A federal court has granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss a challenge from a Pennsylvania-based harm reduction center that’s…

April 4, 2024

“Another Dimension”—OD Deaths Fall Sharply in Areas Close to SCS

Safe consumption sites don’t just protect people from fatal overdose within their walls, suggests recent research. The study, published in…

February 29, 2024

Inside a Busy Safe Consumption Site in Portugal

[The following are the words of Maria Luísa Salazar, one of the organizers of a safe consumption space in Lisbon,…

February 26, 2024

Vermont on the Verge of Authorizing Safe Consumption Sites

The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill on January 11 to allow health providers to open and operate safe…

January 19, 2024

Mathematical Model Illuminates Potential of Safe Consumption Sites

New research aims to put numbers on how safe consumption sites (also known as overdose prevention sites, or OPS) can…

January 18, 2024