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The first two officially sanctioned safe injection sites to open in the U.S. — both located in New York City — did not lead to an increase in crime in surrounding neighborhoods, and by some measures, ...

Only two government-sanctioned “safe-injection sites” operate in the U.S., one in East Harlem, the other in Washington Heights. Their impact—on both those who use their facilities to inject hard drugs ...

When using glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs (GLP-1s) for weight loss or diabetes, you need to get comfortable with injecting the medication under your skin (subcutaneously). Typically, you will target ...

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As recently as his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden decried the wave of fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S., decrying the fact that, as he said, "fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 ...

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For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal ...

Two hundred people rallied in Harlem Saturday to protest the city’s new supervised injection site for drug addicts and the over saturation of treatment facilities in the neighborhood. The protesters ...

A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of injection-site necrosis in some people who received the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine has concluded that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh ...