Tag: SCS
Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the ...
Feds Dispute the Efficacy of Safe Consumption Sites at Safehouse Hearing
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of ...
2020 Candidate Andrew Yang Tweets Support for Safe Consumption Sites
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption ...
Why Those of Us Who Choose Sobriety Should Back Safe Consumption Sites
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without ...
Almost 80 Percent of Heroin Users in Boston, Baltimore Would Visit Safe Consumption Sites
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize ...
Harm Production: Ontario’s Brutal Cuts Add Fuel to the Overdose Fire
Viewed from the United States, Canada’s comparatively liberal social mores and universal healthcare would ...
Filter Video: Inside Portugal’s First Mobile Safe Consumption Site
In April of this year, Portugal, a country well known for having decriminalized all ...
Safe Consumption Site in Philly Has 90 Percent Support Among Locals
Communities most impacted by the overdose crisis are more likely to back groundbreaking interventions ...
Photo Essay: Inside Australia’s Safe Consumption Sites
While officials in the US—and the UK where I live—debate the introduction of safe ...
Maine Legislators Choose Stigma Over Science in Shameful SCS Decision
On May 10, the members of the Health and Human Services Committee of Maine’s ...
