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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 ...
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 ...
Proponents looking to open an overdose prevention center in Connecticut are regrouping after the idea failed this past ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Rhode Island opens nation's first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center. Nina Sparling; December 11, 2024 / 2:11 am ...
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