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Rhode Island officials recently announced the proposed location of a place where people could safely use illegal drugs under the watch of staff trained to reverse overdoses. But in Pennsylvania, the state Senate just voted to ban such centers, six days after Colorado lawmakers killed a bill that would have authorized them.

/PRNewswire/ -- NYU Langone Health and Brown Universitys School of Public Health today announced a grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse...

NYU Langone Health and Brown University's School of Public Health today announced a grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct research to measure the impact of some of the first publicly recognized overdose prevention centers (OPCs) in the United States, located in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island.

The sites have remained controversial, and illegal, in the U.S. but have operated for years in other countries to great effect.

In Rhode Island, the legislature in 2021 authorized its overdose prevention program. The state allocated $2.6 million in opioid lawsuit settlement money to fund the pilot's first year-plus.

The drug xylazine, called "tranq" or the zombie drug, is a powerful animal tranquilizer, often combined with heroin and fentanyl. Too much can immediately stop a user from breathing.

Atlanta Ga (PRWEB) April 20, 2023 -- As xylazine and fentanyl-related overdose deaths continue to surge nationwide, more than 3,000 stakeholders “from federal

Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt worked with SS Rajamouli in RRR which won Oscar for its hit track Naatu Naatu.

Doja Cat, Bella Hadid, MrBeast, Thom Browne and Sam Rivera were some of the other personalities in the Pioneers category

In 2021, the first overdose prevention center opened in the United States. WIRED spoke to its director about what “harm reduction” really means.