Today's release of Burnet Institute led modelling of the costs and benefits of Supervised Injecting Facilities (SIFs) in Canberra is yet another ...
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 ...
A potential drug-abuse therapy opportunity squandered. State lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance-use disorder bill ...
Judy Ryan’s book describes, in meticulous detail, what it took for the Victorian government to trial the state’s first safe injecting facility, through the lens of a local Richmond resident.
The April 6th editorial by the Lowell Sun suggested that the “Feds’ blind eye would give safe inject sites a try.” The editorial began by asking if the time has arrived to challenge prevailing federal ...
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 ...