(Lots of great links in this)
Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users on the street could do more harm than good.
this decision has focused on protecting neighborhoods where drug activity happens in parks and on the streets, ample evidence suggests that banning supervised injection sites may instead jeopardize the people and communities the policy was intended to protect.
Synøve Nygaard Andersen
@corlin
The thing is, there was a safe injection site operating in Philadelphia, and none of the neighbors knew it -- not a nuisance at all. But there are so many for-profit scammers involved in addiction treatment, if it were legal, they'd be setting up poorly-run safe injection sites, too. They really need to get a control on the scammers so people can be more confident about how the injection sites would be run.
@EileenKCarpenter
Absolutely agree.
Strong regulation and oversight are a must.
Not something the US is very good at in the health field.