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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 University's 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.