SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Despite opposition from San Francisco officials, a program to provide free crack pipes to drug users has now distributed some 200 pipes since it began in March. When news of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several media outlets ...

After a wave of grossly misleading news coverage in February 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in safe smoking ...

Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at reducing the transmission of diseases such as hepatitis C. The program, part of ...

Crack addicts in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have started receiving free crack pipes as part of a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority harm reduction strategy aimed at curbing the spread of disease ...

(Tomorrow’s city editorial page will have something on the subject, too.) What interests me this afternoon is the political force that made it happen. Simply, suburban and rural Ottawa ganged up on ...

Amid a severe pothole season on Hamilton’s thoroughfares, the city’s chief road official says staff are in the process of reintroducing “crack sealing” to it’s annual maintenance plan. During a public ...