Bobby Tolbert is a slender, soft-spoken man with a wide smile and an understated elegance. He remembers when he began shooting heroin as a teenager in the 1960s. "When I was coming up," he shakes his ...

Has the time finally arrived to challenge prevailing federal law in an effort to save addicts’ lives? Among the priorities of a major Massachusetts physicians group this legislative session includes ...

The California State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow San Francisco to open safe injection sites under a three year pilot program. The bill, authored by Assemblymember Susan Talamantes ...

Oakland and San Francisco soon could become two of the first cities in the country to pursue an audacious strategy to control drug overdoses — safe injection sites where users can shoot up in a ...

As San Francisco develops plans for authorized safe injection sites for drug users, a study of an underground site already in operation released today suggests that there are potential tradeoffs in ...

The opioid epidemic has led to a meteoric rise in injection drug use over the past decade, according to a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which experts say may also ...

The Victorian government should stop taking the community “as fools” and own up to the real reason why it bought the Flinders St building, the police association says. The former Yooralla building — ...

A Melbourne council has reignited a years-long debate surrounding Victoria's only safe injecting room, lobbying the state government to relocate the facility. Yarra City Council yesterday voted to ...