In response to the increasingly deadly opioid crisis, several cities across the United States are considering implementing legally sanctioned safe injection sites, where people can inject illegal drugs under medical supervision. Lawmakers in cities like Seattle, San Francisco, New York City and Philadelphia are hopeful that these facilities — which are also known as supervised consumption sites, among other things — will help curb the record number of fatal overdoses from injecting heroin, fentanyl and other powerful, and often illegal, drugs. While there is evidence that safe injection sites are effective at saving lives,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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