Marianne Jauncey, medical director at a supervised opioid injection center in Sydney, Australia, lays out syringes and other equipment in this April 12, 2016 file photo. Supervised injection sites — ...

After nearly five decades of an unsuccessful “war on drugs,” America’s opioid epidemic is claiming more lives than ever, often in public places. Even as Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered harsher ...

Top Philadelphia officials are advocating that the city become the first in the U.S. to open a supervised injection site, where people suffering from heroin or opioid addiction could use the drugs ...

A proposal to create a supervised injection site in Philadelphia has drawn criticism from the local archbishop and others who say resources to fight addiction should focus on full and authentic ...

National Correspondent; Anchor, "CBS Weekend News" Jericka Duncan is a national correspondent and anchor of the "CBS Weekend News." She's based in New York City. PHILADELPHIA--In just six years, the ...

Recently I was moderating a debate between Seattle political candidates when the loaded subject of government-run, heroin-injection sites came up. Basically everyone in Seattle politics supports what ...

EDITOR"S NOTE: Operators of the nonprofit Safehouse spoke Wednesday about their plans, defending South Philadelphia as the first location. That story is FOUND HERE. A federal judge in Philadelphia ...

Plans to open what would have been the first supervised injection site in the United States at a plaza in South Philadelphia have been canceled, one day after the facility was publicly announced.

"We don't for a minute think that this is the sole answer to the opioid crisis." A Philadelphia nonprofit's plan to open a safe-injection site, where drug users can inject under medical supervision, ...

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A plan to create a space where people can inject heroin and other drugs under medical supervision does not violate a federal law intended to crack down on drug houses, a federal judge ruled. By ...