The new facility in Providence, operated by the nonprofit Project Weber/RENEW, provides a place for people to use drugs under ...

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.

A ribbon cutting was held Tuesday for both Rhode Island’s and the United State’s first state-sanctioned overdose prevention ...

On Tuesday afternoon, organizers cut the ribbon on the first state-sanctioned safe consumption site for illegal drugs in the United States. The facility—located in Providence, Rhode Island—stems from ...

Rhode Island workplaces are certified or in the process of becoming certified as recovery-friendly workplaces.

"Our policies are saving lives,” Biden officials say about the drop in drug overdose deaths. Experts say that may not be the ...

Three years after the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law authorizing a pilot program for harm reduction centers, ...

Baltimore began explaining why it believes two drug distribution companies should have to pay $5 billion to curb the raging ...

Shaped by his own addiction, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing ideologically flexible approaches to the opioid epidemic.

Building Futures, a nonprofit agency that works with the construction industry and other industries and offers an apprenticeship program, was the first entity to apply to be certified as a ...

Theresa Vezina has been named Burlington's special assistant to the Overdose Prevention Center. Here's what she will do.

The conviction is the first under “Kristen’s Law,” passed by state lawmakers in 2018 to target dealers whose drugs lead to ...