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The sites in upper Manhattan’s East Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods halted more than 150 overdoses in three months.

The sites in upper Manhattan’s East Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods halted more than 150 overdoses in three months.

The sites in upper Manhattan’s East Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods halted more than 150 overdoses in three months.

Two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the United States where local officials are allowing illicit drug use to make it less deadly

Two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the United States where local officials are allowing illicit drug use to make it less deadly. The privately run “overdose prevention centers” are equipped and staffed to reverse opioid overdoses. They are also known as safe injection sites and are a bold and contested response to a tide of overdose deaths nationwide. Supporters see them as humane responses to a national surge in overdose deaths. Critics see them as illegal and defeati...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin.

Two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the United States where local officials are allowing illicit drug use to make it less deadly

Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin. After years of shooting up on streets and rooftops, he was in one of the first two facilities in the country where local officials are allowing illegal drug use in order to make…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin.After years of shooting up on streets