Criminalization is not, and never has been, the answer to a health crisis This week, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein penned an opinion piece in the New York Times in response to the momentum building around safe injection sites for intravenous ...
31 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
‘A facility like this could save them,' says Dr. Thomas Farley, the city's health commissioner In a nation under siege by a burgeoning opioid epidemic, Philadelphia is among the areas hardest hit. The crisis there is claiming lives at a higher r ...
2 Feb 2018 - Emily Green
Two experts speak with Street Roots about the effort to create a space where people can safely use illicit drugs under the supervision of medical professionals A campaign to open a safe consumption space in Portland has officially launched, with members m ...
17 Nov 2017 - Emily Green