In 2021, Gov. Dan McKee signed a law that opened the door to opening an overdose prevention center in Rhode Island, pending local approval. In February 2024, the Providence City Council passed a ...

Addressing doubts. A common theme of the afternoon was addressing the concerns that many people have voiced since 2021, when Rhode Island lawmakers approved a law to establish overdose prevention ...

Proponents looking to open an overdose prevention center in Connecticut are regrouping after the idea failed this past ...

America's first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) held its ribbon cutting on Tuesday in Providence, Rhode Island, soon offering a medically supervised space for users of illegal drugs.

The Rhode Island House of Representatives voted to extend the state-sanctioned overdose prevention center pilot for two more years. A Providence site opened in January and has served 135 distinct ...

The quarter of a million dollars allocated to the City’s Overdose Prevention Center will be used by Project Weber/RENEW — Rhode Island's largest center for harm reduction and recovery services — to ...

Project Weber/RENEW's overdose prevention center, at 45 Willard Ave. near Rhode Island Hospital, will provide a space for people to safely use illicit drugs under oversight, with the goal of ...

- [Michelle] The Overdose Prevention Center is largely funded by opioid settlement money awarded to Rhode Island. No taxpayer dollars are being spent on the program, which is in a pilot phase ...

SPARLNG: Rhode Island approved this kind of facility, called a supervised consumption site or overdose prevention center, a few years ago. And now the nonprofit Project Weber/RENEW is almost ready ...

Rhode Island opens nation's first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center. Nina Sparling; December 11, 2024 / 2:11 am ...