The Department of Justice is reportedly considering opening safe injection sites despite saying during the Trump administration that they were “utterly incompatible” with how local governments should ...

A new study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug, lidocaine, activates bitter taste receptors to exert an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ready ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin. After years of shooting up on streets and rooftops, he was in one of ...

Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images San Francisco plans to try to thread a legislative needle to allow the opening of safe injection sites in the city ...

Could safe injection sites help Philadelphia's overdose crisis? In September, Philadelphia city council voted to ban what are known as safe injection sites, a major blow for advocates who say these ...

A bill allowing drug users to safely inject themselves at supervised facilities in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland passed the state Senate Monday and is awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.