New York’s two supervised drug-consumption sites have long suffered from the soft bigotry of low expectations. Proponents say the sites are vital, life-saving tools in the ever-expanding drug crisis.

José Benitez believes so strongly that his public-health nonprofit has an effective approach to helping people who use drugs that his organization has taken the U.S. Justice Department to court. He is ...

Not all porn sites are created equal, and when it comes to safe porn sites, knowing where to click can make all the difference. Cybercriminals are out there, ready to exploit unsuspecting users, ...

The United States’ opioid problem has steadily been getting worse. In 2022, more than 110,000 people died of drug overdoses, "two-thirds of whom succumbed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl," ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The country is facing a drug overdose crisis, and those impacts are felt in the Pacific Northwest as well. Recovery advocates across the country have long-pushed for an intervention ...

Medics with the Vancouver Fire Rescue Services attend to a man who overdosed on drugs in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) In the ...

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal ...

Google says it's upgrading the default Safe Browsing mode in Chrome to offer better protection against malicious websites. Until now, this mode has used a locally stored list to check whether a site ...

A modern browser does more than just serve up webpages. Good ones protect you from malicious sites, too. Chrome calls its take on this feature Safe Browsing — and the default version of it just got a ...

VANCOUVER, Canada — In the coastal cold of a Vancouver morning, nine people crowded at the door of the Insite safe injection center, itching for it to open so they could shoot heroin and fentanyl ...