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  1. SR editorial: Do not let federal threats foil safe injection sites

    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

  2. Why Philadelphia plans nation's first safe IV drug consumption site

    ‘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

  3. Safer Spaces Portland pushes for safe drug consumption site

    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

  4. A conversation about public drug use

    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

  5. Streetopia: Art in the face of gentrification

    Erick Lyle discusses the legacy of a five-week San Francisco art fair aimed at bringing a community together in the midst of increasing displacement In April 2011, when San Francisco risked losing one of its most valued residents, Twitter, to Silicon Vall ...

    17 Mar 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot

  6. Director’s Desk: Time for change in fight against heroin

    Drug users need a safe place to inject Last week, Street Roots, along with the NAACP of Oregon and the Mental Health Association of Portland, hosted a social justice mayoral forum on police accountability, mental health and homelessness.  Street Roots ask ...

    17 Mar 2016 - Israel Bayer

  7. Seattle may get nation’s first safe injection site

    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

  8. Street Roots editorial: Portland needs safe drug injection site

    Invest in a solution that works, even if it's controversial This past year, there were 122 heroin-related deaths in Oregon, with 80 in Portland’s tri-county area. According to county officials, heroin use in our city has increased steadily over the p ...

    27 Aug 2015 - SR editorial board

  9. Safe-injection sites: Seeking a solution to public IV drug use

    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

  10. Vancouver’s supervised injection site providing a safe place for changing lives

    Vancouver’s supervised injection site providing a safe place for changing lives By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Vancouver, B.C., knows how to deal with heroin addicts. Vancouver is the home to North America’s only supervised injection site, and the worl ...

    21 Jul 2010 - Street Roots

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