Seattle is moving ahead with plans to open at least one safe injection site where drug users can use heroin and other drugs with medically trained staff on hand and hopefully help seek treatment.

Overdose prevention advocates lobby legislators at the state Capitol to support a measure that would allow for the establishment of overdose prevention centers in Connecticut. Credit: Katy Golvala / ...

A longtime owner of multiple businesses in San Francisco condemned local leaders for failing to keep the city safe for small businesses. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Mark Sackett has ...

Facet joints, or zygapophyseal joints, are true synovial joints in the spine that have been identified as potential pain generators. Medial branch blocks involve the injection of a local anesthetic ...

If signs of acute systemic toxicity or total spinal block are observed, the injection of the local anesthetic must be stopped immediately [see Overdosage]. Cardiovascular System Reactions Hypotension ...

Warming local anesthetics may reduce pain experienced during injections, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The study, authored by Anna Taddio, MD, of the University ...

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 ...

Giving people with substance-abuse disorders a place to safely get treatment is a noteworthy cause, but allowing them to hide in a clinic where they can consume drugs without repercussion is something ...

New York City residents are speaking out after users at a taxpayer-funded "safe injection site" operated by OnPoint have left their neighborhood rife with social dysfunction – including public ...