‘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
Street Roots to co-host documentary screening, panel discussion on safe injection sites Portland, we have a public injection problem. Public parks, playgrounds and walkways frequented by drug users are littered with hazardous used syringes. People using ...
14 Jun 2016 - Emily Green
Shilo Murphy, drug user and harm reduction advocate, is poised to open facilities where people can inject illegal drugs in the presence of medical staff The first supervised injection site in the United States will open within six to 18 months in Seattle, ...
10 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
As public drug injection draws criticism in Portland, other U.S. cities fight for a controversial solution On the concrete floor of a public restroom, inside a parking garage in Portland’s Old Town, a heroin addict took his last breaths. He was overdosing ...
27 Aug 2015 - Emily Green