The national fight for safe consumption sites (SCS) seems effectively headquartered in Philadelphia, thanks to a combination of the legal…
October 2 will live long in US harm reduction history. A federal judge gave an interim ruling that Safehouse—a nonprofit…
The “Walmart of Heroin” is how the New York Times described Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood—in a much-criticized October 2018 story that…
Nearly two years after Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said his office would not stand in the way of a safe…
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is a nonprofit organization of current and former police, judges, prosecutors and other justice…
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the soul of the harm reduction movement.…
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of a legal battle with the potential…
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption sites (SCS) in the US. SCS,…
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without much resistance. Sure, there is always…
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize safe consumption spaces if they were…