Injections deliver liquid medications, fluids, or nutrients directly into a person’s body. Different types of injections include intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intraosseous, and intradermal ...

A Safe Injection Site in Harlem where drug use is tolerated with little fear of consequence. The result: A sea of used needles and increase in illicit behaviors now fill local streets. Los Angeles ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Supervised injection or safe consumption sites are places people could go to use illegal drugs while being monitored by medical experts. Protesters of Safehouse, the proposed supervised injection ...

City Council voted to override Mayor Jim Kenney's veto of a bill that prohibits supervised injection sites from opening in most Philadelphia neighborhoods. City Council pushed the bill into law with a ...

For years, the idea of establishing supervised drug injection sites has been a long-standing goal for some progressive California leaders looking to address the burgeoning overdose crisis. Efforts to ...

There are various types of injectable medications for weight loss, which can be injected into the stomach or other areas. These include commonly prescribed drugs such as Ozempic or Wegovy (semaglutide ...

Local legislators put a new bill before the City Council on May 11 to ban supervised injection sites in certain neighborhoods. Councilmember Quetcy Lozada is leading the effort. (Emma Lee/WHYY) ...

Repeated insulin shots at the same site can seed amyloid; consider this diagnosis if absorption seems erratic or glucose control worsens with a persistent lump.

When using glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs (GLP-1s) for weight loss or diabetes, you need to get comfortable with injecting the medication under your skin (subcutaneously). Typically, you will target ...