Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, president of Infection Control ...

President Trump’s plan to curb “urban disorder” could spell the end of “safe injection sites” that flout federal drug laws. The idea that local governments have to comply with federal law has, ...

With daily visits up more than 100 percent and dozens of life-threatening overdoses linked to the centers, officials and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition have released new educational tools on safe injection practices. The materials include a training presentation ...

Boston City Councilors were divided on Wednesday over the hotly debated safe injection sites. One councilor introduced a resolution in opposition to them, which failed by an 8-3 vote. State lawmakers ...

Two city-approved “safe” drug injection sites could be forced to close under a new executive order issued by President Trump, which rips the facilities, where addicts can use illegal drugs like meth, ...

New York City residents are speaking out after users at a taxpayer-funded "safe injection site" operated by OnPoint have left their neighborhood rife with social dysfunction – including public ...

The Boston City Council struck down a resolution opposing safe injection sites, with proponents rejecting notions that legalizing such centers would incentivize addicts to shoot up and saying that ...

In the summer before my freshman year of high school, my aunt succumbed to complications stemming from her substance use disorder. Raised in a low-income family in Bourbonnais, Illinois, she faced ...