Sentences with phrase «supervised injection facilities in»

NYPD officials witnessed people shooting up heroin and dealing drugs outside of supervised injection facilities in Canada — but Commissioner O'Neill said he's open - minded about the city testing out the...

But Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Manhattan Democrat, seized on the idea, saying she would introduce legislation that would legalize supervised injection facilities in New York.

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Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

As Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick defends his proposal for a first - in - the - nation supervised injection facility for heroin users, his city faces myriad messy questions over the legality of taboo supervised drug use.

Also at 1:30 p.m., legislators will join a statewide coalition to launch an aggressive legislative campaign to create safer consumption spaces (SCSs), also known as supervised injection facilities (SIFs), in New York, LOB, Room 130, Albany.

New York City could become the first city in the United States to adopt supervised injection facilities — also known as safe injection sites — in an effort to combat drug overdose deaths and the opioid epidemic.

A demonstration of what a supervised injection facility for heroin users would look like has been making its way across cities in New York state.