LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fresenius Kabi announced today the immediate availability in the United States of Heparin Sodium Injection (5,000 USP units per mL) in the company’s Simplist™ ready ...

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 ...

The United States’ opioid problem has steadily been getting worse. In 2022, more than 110,000 people died of drug overdoses, "two-thirds of whom succumbed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl," ...

The United States is in the midst of a long-running opioid epidemic that has killed nearly one million people since 1999 and cost over $1trillion in health care, law enforcement and social services ...

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 ...

Jannet van der Veen has received income from Brugernes Akademi. Synøve Nygaard Andersen received funding from The Research Council of Norway (grant #288083). Jordan Hyatt and Tony Joakim Ananiassen ...

Supervised injection or safe consumption sites are places people could go to use illegal drugs while being monitored by medical experts. Protesters of Safehouse, the proposed supervised injection ...

LOWELL — The City Council voted Tuesday evening to prohibit safe injection sites within the city ahead of proposed bills in the Legislature that would allow such facilities in Massachusetts.

A used needle is seen on the ground on Friday, March 22, 2024, in Baker Park in Grants Pass, Ore. The two candidates vying to represent District 7 on Boston City Council have different opinions about ...